In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

But, unlike humans, animals that travel long distances must rely on their own senses. And some of them have a long-range ...

A mysterious radio wave has been linked for the first time to the sudden bursts of auroral storms that paint the skies in vivid green and red. The discovery could transform how we predict space ...

Solar magnetic activity, manifesting as sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is the fundamental driver of ...

Florida State University oceanographers have discovered a significant connection between small-scale microbial processes and ...

The electronics in your home regularly give off minute levels of radiation, but which are the worst offenders? And should you ...

This unfortunate association is perhaps one reason why induction cooking hasn’t quite taken off in the U.S. the way it has ...

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

The Magnetic Shield That Protects Our Climate Earth is surrounded by an immense magnetic field, called the magnetosphere. Generated by powerful, dynamic forces at the center of our world, our ...

When New Times called Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields in late August, he apologized for his respiratory distress. He sounded a little congested, but his dulcifer baritone voice was unaffected ...

The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is significantly reduced compared to its surrounding area, has grown by an area nearly the size of ...