Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have developed an innovative method ...

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth’s land and oceans, using our planet’s global magnetic field as their guide. But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth — into orbit, ...

You can check this by placing the compass next to the bowl. The needle is being affected by the Earth’s magnetic field. One end points towards magnetic north and the other end points south.

Earth’s magnetic field is generated by a 2,000 km thick ... [Fair use] Every former Scout will have learned how to take a compass bearing and relate it to a map. But do you remember learning ...

A compass would still technically work in space, but it wouldn't necessarily point you back to Earth. Instead, it would point to the north pole of whatever magnetic field is the strongest ...

As Ron Merrill, a magnetic-field specialist at the University of ... So hang on to your compass. For the foreseeable future, it should work as advertised.—Peter Tyson ...

Until the arrival of GPS, the magnetic compass was the single most useful navigational tool available to humans ... and birds—are able to orient themselves relative to the Earth’s magnetic field.

It’s something [mircemk] demonstrates, with an Arduino-powered magnetic field strength meter that uses a UGN 3503U Hall effect device. The circuit is extremely simple, comprising the sensor ...

This "nano-compass" allows the microbe to passively orient itself in Earth's geomagnetic field (Figure 2). These magnetic nanoparticles are synthesized by a specific set of proteins that are ...