That is, unless you’ve got one of these nifty magnetic field ... able to track the poles of a magnet in real-time and produce an approximation of what the field lines would look like on its ...

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

Bar magnets and horseshoe magnets are two of the most common shapes of magnet. The magnetic field is shown by lines with arrows that point from north to south. You can tell how old some coins are ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the goopy tears they exude. Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel ...

Magnetic field lines stretched outward, and more solar radiation reached the ground. This increase in radiation likely had major effects on Earth’s atmosphere, possibly altering its chemistry ...

The magnetic north pole, meanwhile, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where Earth's magnetic field lines point directly ... than that of a regular bar magnet, the magnetic south pole ...

A trio of recently launched satellites will watch the sun's energy whack the Earth, helping us predict solar storms ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields or ... A small applied electric field causes the electric dipoles to line up in the same direction, transforming ...

More information: Satoshi Ohashi et al, Observationally derived magnetic field strength and 3D components in the HD 142527 ...