In response to a changing magnetic field, so-called alpha brainwaves, the background “hum” of the brain, quieted in human volunteers, scientists reported yesterday (March 18) in eNeuro. “This is the ...

Accompanying those electrical signals are tiny magnetic fields that have only recently been tapped for information into how the human body works. “Our natural magnetic fields offer a different ...

Mars may be our next great frontier, but it's not as welcoming as it seems. Without a thick atmosphere or magnetic field, the ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

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

A doctor at a local cancer institute hopes to do more clinical studies to see if lab findings apply to actual patients. Read ...

Researchers at CU Boulder have created a new type of magnetic field sensor using atoms, offering increased precision.

Human neuroimaging Researchers in Massachusetts are developing a human brain-scale MPI scanner with a mechanically rotated, permanent magnet-based field-free line. (Courtesy: Lawrence Wald) Magnetic ...

“The current behaviour of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before,” William Brown, a global geomagnetic field modeler at the British Geological Survey, said in a statemen ...