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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...