The cliché “down under” drifted into my mind when I was tasting the 30-Mile Shiraz that I’d picked up at a local wine shop. I ...

For the first time, researchers measured the magnetic pull inside a single bacterium, turning a biological mystery into hard ...

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

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Pigeons are one of the most underestimated animals on Earth. Take them hundreds of miles away, release them into unfamiliar territory, and they will still return home with astonishing precision.

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon's magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued about ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

In what is probably the creepiest image on the internet comes a lesson as to why we don’t make pregnant women go through a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. You might have seen a few pictures ...

Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new study, described in a paper published Feb. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, provides ...

Leeuwarden, Netherlands – SailSupply, a leading European online store for sailors and other watersports enthusiasts seeking boat equipment, is excited to announce the launch of its new website, ...