Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have made a significant advance in magnetic field measurement. They ...

Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, and the only way to measure their surface magnetic field directly is to observe the cyclotron absorption lines in their X-ray energy ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

Insight-HXMT’s discovery of the fundamental electron cyclotron absorption line near 146 keV for the first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J 0243.6+6124. Neutron stars have the strongest ...

The growing strength, use, and complexity of superconducting magnets are leading to an increased need to characterize the fields they produce. Image credit: Shutterstock/3DStach This is a challenging ...

A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth’s core, 1,800 miles underground. The magnetic field strength ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South ...

Imagine a satellite, floating in space. How would you measure its voltage? Yes, it probably has a non-zero voltage, a consequence of geospatial electric fields and ion and electron currents. The ...