Electricity and magnetism were imprinted into our surroundings from the beginning. Five billion years ago when the new-born Earth was a hot plasma of swirling electrical currents, these flows ...

The Earth's Magnetism The fact that the grains of ancient rocks are lined up like tiny compass needles has led to the astonishing conclusion that the earth's magnetic poles have wandered and ...

One of the many unseen forces to which you owe your existence is magnetism. If it weren’t for the magnetic field that surrounds our planet, blocking cosmic radiation and solar wind, Earth would likely ...

WHEN the mean horizontal force of the earth's magnetism for each day of the year has been deduced from well-corrected observations of the bifilar magnetometer, and the results have been projected ...

Scientists discover dinosaur highway: a vast expanse of land filled with footprints of the giants that once roamed the Earth News ... a third type of magnetism, known as altermagnetism.

Animal magnetism One of the first concrete signs ... Clearly they were acting on something invisible, and Fromme deduced it must be the Earth's magnetic field. Numerous experiments undertaken ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, scientists said Wednesday. Some animals that migrate ...

Like all induced magnets: they are only attracted by other magnets, they are not repelled they lose most or all of their magnetism when ... in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field, or ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...

and its relation to the problem of the origin of the earth's magnetic field. As was pointed out by the late Prof. J. G. Koenigsberger 2, the occurrence of natural remanent magnetism of igneous ...

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