Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
The solar maximum may be over, but the sun has still been busy with activity.
NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.
Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...
When the sun reaches its period of peak activity, known as solar maximum, our star's magentic field will suddenly reverse. But why does it happen, and will it impact Earth? When you purchase through ...
In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...
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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 ...
New ion beam fabrication uses low cost materials to form vertical nanomagnets whose nanostrip geometry boosts sensitivity to ...