One of the most taken-for-granted pieces of equipment on a boat is the magnetic compass. The compass is the basic navigational instrument aboard a boat, especially when out of sight of land.

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This hybrid bridge - compass pose stretches spinal side flexors, hamstrings, and groin Opens the sides of the ribcage, ...

An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study.

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of our species that has persisted to the present, permitting ...

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This article was originally published with the title “ Variation of the Magnetic Needle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 10 No. 42 (June 1855), p. 331 doi:10.1038 ...

Electric fields are produced by voltage, and magnetic fields are produced by current. Electric fields and magnetic fields manifest themselves in different ways and have different characteristics. For ...