Did ancient sunscreen and sewing needles save humanity? In a nutshell 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to ...

The mystery of Mars' magnetic field has puzzled scientists for decades. A new study proposes a surprising explanation for its ...

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...

Could changes in the magnetic field have played a role? Mukhopadhyay, along with anthropologist Raven Garvey and a global team of researchers, began piecing together clues from archaeology ...

In February, a small aircraft flew 300 miles through the skies, guided only by Earth’s magnetic field. How so? Onboard was a ...

Undersea superhighways Other animals take things a step further than the blind mole rat, using the magnetic field like we do the Global Positioning System, to determine their location on the ...

If a vehicle carries a sensitive magnetometer and has access to a map of these anomalies, it can determine its position by matching its real-time magnetic field measurements to the map. Global ...

The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet ... an egg' or separate interacting proteins, resulting in a global Ig Nobel Prize in 2015. It was then shown to be a useful tool ...

Creatures from migratory eels and other fish species to insects to birds tap into the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, sometimes many thousands of miles. But so far, evidence has been scant for any ...

Like Earth, Mars once had a strong magnetic field that shielded its thick atmosphere from the solar wind. But now only the magnetic imprint remains. What's long baffled scientists, though ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...