The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

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 ...

China has set a new benchmark in extreme magnet science after researchers built the ...

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

Researchers adapted ARPES to work in magnetic fields using nanoscale alternating magnets that confine fields near a sample, letting photoelectrons travel straight.

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

Yale researchers may have solved a longstanding puzzle as to why certain metallic meteorites show traces of a magnetic field — a finding that may shed light on the formation of magnetic dynamos at the ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...