Velocity gradients prove key to explaining large-scale magnetic field structure

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...
Science Daily

Molten Martian core could explain red planet's magnetic quirks

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...

Hubble tension: Primordial magnetic fields could resolve one of cosmology's biggest questions

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

Plasma “Fireballs” at CERN May Explain the Universe’s Missing Light

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...
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Researchers Find Evidence of New Layer to Earth That Could Explain Magnetic Field

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) found evidence of a new layer to Earth within the inner core, according to Engadget. The inner core is an iron-nickel alloy ball that is a ...
Newsweek

Decades-Old Uranus Mystery May Have Been Solved

Uranus's mysteriously asymmetrical and skewed magnetic field has long confounded astronomers—until now. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped past Uranus in 1986, it noticed that the huge gas giant's ...
IFLScience

Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Not The Same At The North And South Poles

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
USA Today

As spring equinox nears, look for the northern lights: We explain why

There may be more northern lights – or aurora borealis – sightings this spring. As we near the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, on March 20, the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind ...
IFLScience

Turtles Use Earth's Magnetic Fields And "Quantum Biology" To Get Their Bearings

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
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Molten martian core could explain red planet's magnetic quirks

Like Earth, Mars once had a strong magnetic field that shielded its thick atmosphere from the solar wind. But now only the magnetic imprint remains. What's long baffled scientists, though, is why this ...
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Molten Martian core could explain red planet’s magnetic quirks

Computer simulation of a one-sided magnetic field on early Mars based on data from a study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. The study could explain the unusual magnetic imprint ...