Physicists and engineers have developed a groundbreaking method to measure magnetic field orientation using atoms as tiny ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...

The energy resolution limit (ERL) is a mix of parameters representing the economics of a quantum system within a sensor's ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have made a significant advance in magnetic field measurement. They have developed a new technique that uses atoms as highly precise ...

Scientists discover altermagnets, which have favorable properties of both of the two other kinds.

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Discover how birds, animals, and possibly humans detect and use Earth's magnetic field for navigation, hunting, and survival.

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

This area is known for strange happenings, like compasses behaving oddly and objects seeming to float, possibly due to magnetic forces. On top of this mountain, some spots make it look like things ...

Researchers have found evidence for the existence of a third class of magnetism — altermagnetism. The discovery will make it ...

My wife and I enjoy hiking off trail and for our bushwhacking adventures, we use a paper topographic map, a compass and a handheld GPSR.