Imagine crossing vast oceans, soaring across continents, or tunneling deep beneath the earth—without ever getting lost. For ...

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until the arrival of GPS, the magnetic compass was the single most useful navigational tool ... and birds—are able to orient themselves relative to the Earth’s magnetic field. Among mammals, naked ...

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 ...