Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

Magnetic levitation, or maglev, feels like science fiction come to life¹. Using powerful electromagnetic fields, these ...

They've found that Voyager 2's flyby was a freak event: The spacecraft happened to pass by Uranus during an "extreme" solar storm, effectively ruining any chance Voyager 2 had at capturing an accurate ...

Berry used mathematical means to investigate what would happen to the neutron if the direction of the magnetic field changed ...

New superconducting material could pave the way for the next stage in quantum computing by behaving as qubits in a more powerful system, scientists have proposed.

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...

The Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM) is poised to play a pivotal role in unraveling the mysteries of Europa's subsurface ...

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...