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 ...

Using the ROentgen SATellite (ROSAT), astronomers have discovered a new cataclysmic variable system of the polar subtype. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...