There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when electrical current flows through it. The last time the scientists who operate ...

The Northern Lights or aurora borealis may be visible in the U.S. this week due to a coronal hole and a "co-rotating ...

Explore how superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) and superconducting flywheels work, their applications in grid ...

Explore how nanosensors are transforming cancer diagnostics by enabling earlier, more accurate, and less invasive detection ...

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

Allegro’s CT4022/32 TMR current sensors claim ultra-low noise and high-precision current measurements for clean energy ...

When an electric current passes through some materials, it generates a voltage perpendicular to the direction in which the ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

An international research team has discovered the anomalous Hall effect in a collinear antiferromagnet. More strikingly, the anomalous Hall effect emerges from a non-Fermi liquid state, in which ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Did ancient sunscreen and sewing needles save humanity? In a nutshell 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to ...