A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...

China has set a new benchmark in extreme magnet science after researchers built the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Without its magnetic field, life on Earth would not be possible ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

Key points Shaped like the Australian coastline, the Australia Magnetic Anomaly is a concealed magnetic geological feature ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...

A new model contradicts previous theories that the sun's magnetic field originates deep inside its interior. Deep origin theories could not explain rotation patterns of the sun's gas near its surface ...

Physicist Davide Bossini from the University of Konstanz demonstrates how to change the frequency of the collective magnetic oscillations of a material by up to 40% – using commercially available ...