For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...
A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetism: the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a ...
Far above the South Atlantic, Earth’s magnetic shield is thinning into a vast, lopsided bruise that now sprawls across an area comparable to nearly half of Europe. This weak patch, known as the South ...
Modern technology depends on precision, yet many critical systems operate in environments filled with invisible magnetic ...
Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.
A magnetic cloak works by diverting external magnetic fields so that, to an external observer, the object appears to be absent or invisible. Although this idea ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...
In the blink of an eye in geological time, Canada has lost one north pole but gained another, a new and different claim to be ...
Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts ...