In the late 1800s, the French naturalist Camille Viguier proposed an idea that would be dismissed and forgotten for more than ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

Pigeons may sense Earth's magnetic field using special cells in the inner ear. This discovery explains how they navigate long ...

Every holiday season there is a mass migration of humans towards home and family. We use many tools to help us navigate back ...

A strange phenomenon native to the Sun’s environment was spotted in the Earth’s magnetosphere, likely evidence of reactions ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was among the first to propose the existence of a magnetic sense. His ...

Life on Earth may exist thanks to a brief faltering in our planet's protective magnetic field shell, scientists have found. A bizarre drop in the strength of the magnetic field has been found to have ...

NASA detects first “magnetic switchback” near Earth: an energetic change in your space shield that reveals new solar risks.

Simulations and satellite data reveal that Earth's magnetic field is more complex than scientists had thought. Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat ...