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 ...
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Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...
Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory ...
Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic ...
A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth’s core, 1,800 miles underground. The magnetic field strength ...
New results from China’s Chang’e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science Advances, ...
It is not known when humans first noticed the attraction or repulsion between pieces of magnetic material. The first important device depending on these forces was the magnetic compass, which is ...