The raw data was captured during the Northern Territory Government’s Bonney Well Survey. A plane, armed with a sophisticated ...

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature.

The Earth’s magnetic field, an invisible force generated by our planet’s core, serves as a natural compass that has guided human navigation for centuries. However, long before humans invented ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading the way. The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals.

You may have seen headlines or social media posts talking about a weakening of Earth’s magnetic field, specifically over the South Atlantic. It sounds dramatic, and a little scary. Is Earth losing its ...

3D and cross-sectional views of an optimized Superconducting (SC)- Soft-Ferromagnetic bilayer (SFM) cloak. At the left no SFM is used showing the diamagnetic response of the SC. At the right the ...

Magnetoreception, an animal’s ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field, remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in biology. While this skill is surprisingly common across species, the inner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Earth's magnetic field deflects particles emitted by the Sun. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The Earth’s ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance when they recognized the signal. After a magnetic pulse briefly disrupted ...

The world is a vast and ever-changing place, and for centuries, scientists have marveled at the remarkable journey undertaken by migratory birds – now possibly using the earth’s magnetic field. These ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense the 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 ...