With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That is why modern ships are equipped with technology such as radar and a ...

Check your compass again — Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

"Ferromagnetism, where the magnetic moments, which you can picture like small compass arrows on the atomic scale, all point in the same direction. And antiferromagnetism, where the neighboring ...

Sir James Clark Ross discovered magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada. British scientists have recently revealed that Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting towards Russia at an ...

Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, revealing that the pole is now closer to Siberia than it was five years ago and is continuing to drift toward ...

The Wooting 80HE is its successor and launched into a whole different landscape. Magnetic switches (Hall Effect) on keyboards are common now and can be found affordably, and many of the 60HE’s ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Data from ESA's Swarm mission reveals that Earth's ocean tides generate faint magnetic signatures detectable from space. These signals can provide insights into ...