Professor Dallas Trinkle and colleagues have provided the first quantitative explanation for how magnetic fields slow carbon ...

Explore the fascinating comparison between magnetic fields produced by a current loop and electric fields generated by a dipole. This short breaks down key similarities and differences using clear ...

Dan Joling of Anchorage was set to photograph the full moon rising over the Port of Anchorage on Jan. 6. His research told him the moon would pop over the horizon at a certain number of degrees from ...

For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

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 ...

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar approach elsewhere help us unravel the mysteries of Earth's magnetic field?

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...

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