Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
The Space Weather Prediction Center will issue geomagnetic storm watches and warnings when the latest forecasts indicate that ...
Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...
NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.
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In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...
In 2008, Erez Ben-Yosef unearthed a piece of Iron Age "trash" and inadvertently revealed the strongest magnetic-field anomaly ever found. Ben-Yosef, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, had been ...
An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...
New ion beam fabrication uses low cost materials to form vertical nanomagnets whose nanostrip geometry boosts sensitivity to ...