Atoms that measure magnetic fields could lead to new quantum sensors
A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...
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Twisted magnetic fields in space sculpt the jets of black holes and baby stars
"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...
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The sun's magnetic field will flip soon. Here's what to expect.
As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in ...
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Researchers Find Oldest Evidence Of Earth’s Magnetic Field
An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded ... These results provide the oldest estimate of the strength of Earth’s magnetic field derived from whole rock samples, which provide a more ...
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NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...
Earth’s Magnetic Pole Has Officially Moved—Again
In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...
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Optical magnetometry
53 along with a survey of earlier work. Figure 3: Examples of biological magnetic fields recorded with atomic magnetometers. Measurements of planetary and interplanetary magnetic fields have been ...
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The sun's magnetic field will flip soon. Here's what to expect.
The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years ...