Increasing the size of the magnetic field (red horizontal arrows) applied to rod-like viruses during self-assembly produces thicker, larger disks. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10. ...

DR. O. HEAVISIDE has investigated (NATURE, April 19) the slow motion of a charged conducting sphere through a uniform electric field, in a direction parallel to the electric force of the field ...

It was a bloated, tempestuous sphere — twice its current size, glowing with internal heat, and wrapped in a magnetic field fifty times stronger than what it possesses now.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

A research team led by Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Geophysicist Daniel Lathrop wants, among other things, to use it to predict when the Earth’s magnetic field will next reverse. ... With the sphere spinning at 45 miles per hour, ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery ...

The history of magnetism on Mars remains a critical field of study since it is closely tied to the planet’s potential capacity for life billions of years ago. Mars’ magnetic field was once generated ...

Since the magnetic field is sustained by geological activity deep within our planet, let’s start with an overview of its structure. Although we’ve hardly scratched Earth’s surface (the center lies ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It is generated in the liquid outer core of our planet ...