Powerful magnets come together in a mesmerizing display of attraction and repulsion. Watch as they shift, align, and snap ...
Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.
Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...
Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...
Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.
[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was ...
Our planet's spinning motion causes the moving liquid metal to spiral, in a way similar to how it affects weather systems on the Earth's surface. These spiraling eddies allow separate magnetic ...