Although the Earth’s magnetic field is reliable enough for navigation and is also essential for blocking harmful solar emissions and for improving radio communications, it’s not a uniform strength ...

A solar tsunami observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Japanese Hinode spacecraft has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field. Solar tsunamis ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have made a significant advance in magnetic field measurement. They have developed a new technique that uses atoms as highly precise ...

Studies of a solar flare revealed something unexpected about the sun: its magnetic field is even stronger than scientists predicted. Measuring that magnetic field within loops of material bursting out ...

High school students in Portugal programmed a small, inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer to measure Earth's magnetic field from the International Space Station. When you purchase through links on our ...

Using atoms only a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, a team of researchers has detected magnetic signals undetectable by any other existing sensor technology. Using atoms only a few ...

So, that’s another one the birds have on us. In addition to flight and colorful plumage, they’re also equipped with magnetometer beaks that can sense magnetic fields and use them as a map. Yes, even ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Physicists have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically thin layers of ...

The new big thing in magnetics is altermagnetism, a form of magnetism that promises to power the next generation of ...