An estimated 1 trillion species of microorganisms reside on Earth, yet scientists have been able to study less than two ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

The new magnetic sensor is inexpensive to make, works on minimal power and is 20 times more sensitive than many traditional sensors. A team of Brown University physicists has developed a new type of ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey.

Most standard software for modeling magnetic fields uses the standard finite-element method. For some problems, however, an alternate boundary-element formulation can be much more efficient. To ...

Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it ...

TWO CENTURIES ago Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish physicist, demonstrated that the motion of an electric charge produces magnetism. This was the first observation of a wide-ranging phenomenon. The ...

Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields. Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to ...