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

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 ...

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

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

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

A mysterious menagerie of quantum states — once purely theoretical — has been brought to life by researchers at Columbia ...

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

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

In magnetic reconnection, adjacent magnetic field lines break and snap together to form new lines. This process converts ...