With aircraft increasingly targeted by GPS jammers, the search for new ways to navigate is hotting up.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Did ancient sunscreen and sewing needles save humanity? In a nutshell 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Researchers from Max Born Institute have demonstrated a successful way to control and manipulate nanoscale magnetic bits—the ...

Chinese scientists’ breakthrough in magnetic detection technology could give China the edge in submarine warfare amid Sino-US ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

Scientists say tailored clothes, ochre-based sunscreen, and cave shelter helped Homo sapiens survive a magnetic shift 41,000 ...