In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s magnetic north and its chaotic and relatively unpredictable movements.

This new model updates the location of magnetic north while also providing improved navigation for technologies reliant on Earth’s magnetic field. Updated every five years, scientists have confirmed ...

There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a Japanese gardener provided one of the most ‘profound learnings’ of his life: It’s why he can be on top of every detail at the $3.2 trillion chip giant A Man ...

It is a point on the Earth's surface where the planet's magnetic field lines converge vertically. The geographic North Pole is the northernmost point on Earth, but this is not so with the magnetic ...

At first glimpse, it may seem like infant stars and supermassive black holes have very little in common. Infant stars, or "protostars," haven't yet gathered enough mass to trigger the nuclear ...

Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the upper atmosphere, such as oxygen and nitrogen, transferring energy ...

The mom pulled her kids out of field day because she didn't want to pay for the mandatory t-shirts. Ask pretty much any mom and they'll say they dread school events like "spirit days," because ...

Charged particles will only experience a force in a magnetic field if they are moving. The direction of the force is both perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field and the direction of the ...

None of the terrestrial planets have rings, although Earth does have belts of trapped radiation, as discussed below. Among the terrestrials, only Earth has a substantial planetary magnetic field. Mars ...