Scientists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism behind low-field magnetars, showing that supernova fallback material ...

In the vast, featureless expanse of the open ocean, how does a sea turtle find its way? For loggerhead turtles, the answer ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

This week, see what makes loggerhead sea turtles “dance,” track a cosmic “ghost particle,” uncover an ancient basilica, and ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better memory-storage devices. Developed by RIKEN physicists, this technique could make ...

Scientists have unlocked a previously unseen behavior of acoustic waves, opening up new possibilities for cutting-edge ...

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

The turtles rely on Earth’s magnetic field to help them navigate in two ... the light of a distant galaxy creating a glowing ring around a nearby one. An analysis of bones of ancient humans ...