Sharks don’t just rely on sight or smell—they use Earth’s magnetic field like a built-in compass to find their way across the ocean. Trump administration looking to sell nearly 200 commissary stores ...

Did you know that the direction your dog faces when they poop might be as reliable as a compass? And that Doritos make a great firestarter?

In 2018, Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky of Weizmann’s Brain Sciences Department embarked on a worldwide search for a natural setting that would allow him to study mammalian navigation in the wild. “I was ...

Once called “America’s last jaguar,” the solitary male wandered across the southern border in 2011 and became the centerpiece ...

Simulations and satellite data reveal that Earth's magnetic field is more complex than scientists had thought. Scientists ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Based on the grazing view, the general consensus was that the plasma cells and the magnetic field shifted poleward more slowly than at the equator. But Solar Orbiter has shown that the speed is higher ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of the magnetic field stretching from South America to western Africa. Wherever the ...

It would be an understatement to say that the Earth's magnetic field is important. It's one of the reasons we're able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous ...

Satellite data has revealed a growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – and it’s been expanding steadily for the last 10 years. The South Atlantic Anomaly – a strange weak ...