It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice sheets and floating sea ice could accurately measure a disturbance in Earth's magnetic field. But that is just what ESA's CryoSat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at NASA are closely monitoring a vast region of weakened magnetic intensity—known as the South Atlantic Anomaly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A microscopic magnetite fossil (left) discovered in sediment below the North Atlantic, seen using X-ray microscopy; the fossil?s ...

Physicists weren’t sure why Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions are more strongly magnetized than models predict ...

Strong magnets tend to be large and power-hungry, but a new design has produced a powerful magnet that fits in the palm of your hand, making it more practical and affordable ...

A newly developed model defines the upper limit to the strength of planetary magnetic fields. The model can help better ...

Fossils are 50 times smaller than the width of a hair New study shows they could help an organism navigate Eels are one possibility and microbes are another Nov 17 (Reuters) - Microscopic magnetic ...