A blazar is an extraordinarily bright object with a supermassive black hole at its core. Some of the matter falling into the black hole is accelerated outwards in a pair of opposing jets, creating ...

Magnetic sensors quietly underpin everything from smartphone compasses to the stability systems that keep electric vehicles ...

Teams in France are assembling the core of ITER, the gigantic experiment that seeks to harness energy from fusion, similar to ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through, a pure messenger of energy and information that leaves magnetic order ...

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The vestibular system, a set of structures in the inner ears that helps with balance, may grant the birds their special ...

How do pigeons know where they're going while flying across vast distances? Researchers point to their inner ear system.

For nearly two centuries, scientists have believed that only the electric side of light played a role in certain magnetic ...

By using one physical principle—magnetism—to drive both movement and power, the team created a robot that is more efficient, ...