Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation ...

Such reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, they'd tell you ... So hang on to your compass. For the foreseeable future, it should work as advertised.—Peter Tyson ...

Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields ... where an applied electric field interacts with deformation modes of the crystal to control the sign of the ...

You can check this by placing the compass next to the bowl. The needle is being affected by the Earth’s magnetic field. One end points towards magnetic north and the other end points south.

A magnetic field is invisible, but it can be detected using a magnetic compass. A compass contains a small bar magnet on a pivot so that it can rotate. The compass needle points in the direction ...