Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field generated by electric currents from within the planet. Compasses take advantage of this field to identify north and serve as a navigational aid. But one social ...

Compass readings that do not show the direction of true north and interference with the operations of satellites are a few of the problems caused by peculiarities of the Earth's magnetic field. The ...

A protein in birds' eyes is sensitive to magnetic fields, which may help explain how they navigate across the planet. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Many birds have a sixth sense. No, not seeing ...

Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as ...

Great white sharks travel hundreds of miles to specific locations in the world’s oceans. Reinhard Dirscherl / ullstein bild via Getty Images Every December, great white sharks swimming off the coast ...

For just over two years, a scalar magnetometer developed by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has been on its way to ...

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