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Deep beneath our feet, something extraordinary is happening. Scientists have discovered that changes in Earth's core are ...

Measurements by the SWAN instrument onboard SOHO, have shown that the heliosphere, the solar wind filled volume which prevents the solar system from getting embedded in the local (ambient) ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...

Our protective blanket helps shield us from unruly space weather. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's magnetic field — also ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As cosmic strings — exotic wrinkles in space-time left over from the earliest moments of the Big ...

In a recently published article in IEEE Electron Devices Magazine the authors, I was one of them, looked at the impact of external magnetic fields on spin tunnel torque magnetic random-access memories ...

This week AWE music writer Ben Johnson reviews Magnetic Fields' "Distortion," Eels' "Meet the Eels, Vol. 1" and "Meet the Eels, Useless Trinkets" and Josh Kelley's "Special Company." Magnetic Fields ...

In the '90s, Stephin Merritt's primary band, The Magnetic Fields, released six albums, climaxing with the three-CD 69 Love Songs. In this decade, it's released just two albums, but the latest was well ...