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

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

Imagine crossing vast oceans, soaring across continents, or tunneling deep beneath the earth—without ever getting lost. For ...

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." ...

The Earth’s magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nano particles and materials. Scientists at Flinders ...

The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument.

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

But experiments have shown that ochre ... There’s also a lesson for planetary science. Many astronomers believe a strong magnetic field is a requirement for life. But events like the Laschamps ...