Like most old skills, there's something deeply satisfying about getting where you want to go with the humble compass. I ...

ABSTRACT: The Earth’s magnetic declination, a key parameter of the geomagnetic field, has long provided a fundamental reference for navigation, orientation, and geospatial positioning. Owing to ...

ABSTRACT: The Earth’s magnetic declination, a key parameter of the geomagnetic field, has long provided a fundamental reference for navigation, orientation, and geospatial positioning. Owing to ...

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes ...

Lots of news in the Comey case the last couple of days. Here’s where it stands after yesterday’s dust settled. First, journos are having conniptions over an issue that, I think, is just not that big a ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are ...

France and Italy to Iran: Hey, Let’s Make a Deal! CNN’s Strait of Hormuz Allegation Makes No Sense Under intense questioning by the presiding judge, one of the experienced prosecutors recruited by the ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

A magnetic device may be able to remove kidney stones more efficiently than standard approaches, avoiding the need for repeated surgical procedures. Kidney stones occur when minerals in urine ...

A major dip in the Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has been puzzling scientists for over a century. An international team of researchers analyzed data collected by the European Space ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

The magnetic field swirling around an enormous black hole, located about 55 million light-years from Earth, has unexpectedly switched directions. This dramatic reversal challenges theories of black ...