Using a magnetic compass to calculate the current in a wire. Learn how magnetic fields, compass deflection, and basic electromagnetism principles connect in a practical physics experiment. #MagneticFi ...

A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetism: the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a ...

Zoltan Fodor receives funding from DFG, BMBF. When the results of an experiment don’t match predictions made by the best theory of the day, something is off. Fifteen years ago, physicists at ...

Magnetic illusion: a long wire surrounded by a magnetic replicator generates a replica of the wire outside it. (Courtesy: Phys. Rev. Lett. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.177204) Physicists in the UK and ...

For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

Our protective blanket helps shield us from unruly space weather. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's magnetic field — also ...

The magnetic moment of the muon is an important precision parameter for putting the standard model of particle physics to the test. After years of work, the research group led by Professor Hartmut ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding ...

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 ...