This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

How does a magnetic compass work? Well, it’s all down to basic physics and human ingenuity. The key component of a standard baseplate compass is its magnetized needle, which is allowed to spin ...

During solar minimum, the sun's magnetic field is close to a dipole, with one north pole and one south pole, similar to Earth's magnetic field.

The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the universe may have been billions of times weaker than a small ...

Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with global coronal magnetic field maps measured ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation may be an answer for those with treatment-resistant depression MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — It's a disorder that impacts millions. And for some living with ...

New research suggests that the largest magnetic fields in the universe originated through some exotic mechanism that absolutely soaked the early cosmos.

Everybody makes mistakes. Biology is no different. However, living organisms have certain error-correction mechanisms that ...

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.