A team of astronomers has identified a new polar cataclysmic variable, a rare type of binary star system featuring a highly ...

As there-could be no magic in the case, it appeared that the balance had magnetic polarity, as no other cause could produce the effect I had witnessed, and which was repeated as often as I chose ...

Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic ...

As the time line at right shows, hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north ...

The astronomers found that the surface magnetic-field strength of the white dwarf in ZTF J0112+5827 is approximately 38.7 MG, which indicates the system's polar nature. It turned out that there is ...

Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...

This could be a sign that we're about to experience something humans have never witnessed before: a magnetic polar flip. And when this happens, it could affect much more than just your compass.

using a gigantic magnet, can line up the protons -- or nuclei of hydrogen atoms -- in an object (or organism) to align with the north-south polarity of the magnet. A computer "reads" this to ...

This method uses the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field, which has changed through time, to determine ages for fossils and rocks. Relative dating to determine the age of rocks and fossils ...