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A space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests and could someday propel spacecraft using ...

When the Magnetic North Heads South: Earth’s Reversals Regularly—at least in the geological sense—Earth’s magnetic field ...

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Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats. Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...