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Uranus, a Weird Planet, Has a Weird Magnetic Field

The way the planet dances with the solar wind makes it even stranger. Even considering the small number of planets in our solar system, Uranus is odd. A new study of its magnetic field indicates that it is even stranger than we thought.

Scientists Are Getting Puzzled After The First Close Look Of Jupiter's Surface

Jupiter has fascinated sky-gazers for millennia but it wasn’t until probes are sent to the planet that scientists began to unravel its deepest secrets. Now, new scientific data from Juno, the most recent spacecraft to rendezvous with the gas giant, shows that Jupiter has many more secrets still.

'Quartz' Crystals At The Core Of Earth Are The Power House Of Magnetic Field

Scientists from Earth-Life Science Institute(ELSI) has found that Earth's magnetic field gets the power from the Quartz crystals. Lead researcher Kei Hirose and his team created an Earth's core like environment at their lab and found that the crystallization process of Silicon and Oxygen provides the energy for the magnetic field.

Can Magnetism Bend Heat And Sound? Study Reveals A New Dimension to Magnetic Fields

For many years researchers have sought to discover just how many uses magnetic fields can have. To date they have become essential in quantum computing, they are vital in medical imaging, and astronomers have even used natural magnetism to amplify the signals of light from far off supernovae and galaxies so that we here on Earth can see them hundreds or thousands of light-years away. But in a new study from researchers at Ohio State University, nanotechnologists have revealed that magnetic fields can impact our lives in far more real ways—controlling heat and sound waves that exhibit magnetic properties of their own.

New NASA Maps Reveal Secrets of Mercury

The planet closest to the sun has continued to be shrouded in mystery for many years. Now, NASA has unveiled never before seen formations on the surface with two maps created from data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft that has been orbiting the planet since 2004.

Revealing the Swimming Secrets of the Ageless, Brainless Jellyfish

They may lack brains, bones, and even a heart, but jellyfish are undoubtedly some of the most interesting creatures marine biologists have come to research. Even in spite of their major deficits, and their obvious downfalls, jellyfish have an incredible talent for swimming. So much so that no other creature under the sea can quite compete in terms of efficiency and skills. Though their tactics have long been misunderstood, a new study adds to the working knowledge that these brainless creatures are far more clever than we give them credit for.

Sea Turtles Use Earth’s Magnetic Field as a GPS

Female sea turtles will swim for thousands of miles to return to their place of birth to lay eggs. For years, how they found their home has remained a mystery to researchers. However, according to a new study, these sea turtles find their way home by relying on the unique magnetic signatures along the coast.

Researchers Reveal Method for Magnetic Field Calculation of Exoplanets

Knowing the level of a planet’s magnetic field can be an important fact to know in the study of how they interact. But studying the fields of an exoplanet, outside of our solar system and orbiting a foreign star, can be a difficult task that researchers have not yet been able to achieve. Though in nearly two decades of looking past our solar system to investigate exoplanets, researchers have developed several methods to estimate magnetic fields at quite a distance.

Earth's Rapidly Shifting Magnetic Field Could Impact Your Health

Scientists are now claiming that Earth's magnetic field could potentially reverse itself in a shorter time frame than ever before thought possible. It has long been thought that our magnetic field flips every 450,000 years, however, a recent study has been published, which concludes that the most recent flip only took 100 years.
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