For desert ants, Earth’s magnetic field isn’t just a compass: It may also sculpt their brains. Stepping outside their nest for the first time, young ants need to learn how to forage. The ants train ...
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) might be the most famous carnivorous plant; it can entice prey to land on its leaf lobes, which it can shut like a trap. Just like the signals that flash through ...
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Scientists find a surprising twist in Earth's magnetic field
Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from ...
TWO CENTURIES ago Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish physicist, demonstrated that the motion of an electric charge produces magnetism. This was the first observation of a wide-ranging phenomenon. The ...
The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...
How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating ...
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