Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that can penetrate spacecraft shielding and destroy important systems.

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A quantum "miracle material" could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers at the University of Regensburg and ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

A magnetic field is just an electric field seen from a different frame of reference. So, when an electron moves in the electric field of another electron, this special relativistic effect results ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

The spin–orbit interaction is a relativistic effect whereby an electric field in the crystal is experienced by a moving electron as a magnetic field in the rest frame of the electron ...

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...