A fast-expanding weak zone in Earth’s magnetic field is drawing the attention of scientists, satellite operators, and geomagnetic modelers worldwide. Known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), this ...

In 2008, Erez Ben-Yosef unearthed a piece of Iron Age "trash" and inadvertently revealed the strongest magnetic-field anomaly ever found. Ben-Yosef, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, had been ...

Earth's protective magnetic shield has a weak spot, the South Atlantic Anomaly, which is expanding and splitting. This ...

While movies show Earth as existing in a calm, pristine corner of the universe, in reality the near-Earth space environment is dangerous and dynamic. On any given day, hot charged particles and blobs ...

A breakthrough in understanding how the quasi-particles known as magnetic monopoles behave could lead to the development of new technologies to replace electric charges. A breakthrough in ...

A fundamental prediction of superconductivity theory has been demonstrated in the lab for the first time. An international team of physicists has observed coherent quantum phase slip, a phenomenon ...