Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Without its magnetic field, life on Earth would not be possible ...

Barreling through the universe with incredible power and speed, galactic cosmic rays are a major source of radiation in space ...

The new miniaturized structure requires a few thousand times less power than larger magnets and it could help bring ...

Primordial magnetic fields may help explain why measurements of the universe’s expansion do not agree. Scientists have long known that the universe is expanding, yet there is still no agreement on how ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

New results from China’s Chang’e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science Advances, ...

Christopher Davies receives funding from NERC. The Earth’s magnetic field, generated 3,000km below our feet in the liquid iron core, is crucially important to life on our planet. It extends out into ...

Physicists have found a way to circumvent a 178-year old theory which means they can effectively cancel magnetic fields at a distance. They are the first to be able to do so in a way which has ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is forcing scientists to rethink how the Sun’s magnetic machinery actually works. A series of ...

The heated race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have ...