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

A compass is an age-old tool for navigation. It is simplistic in design and function. In today's high-tech world, the humble ...

A magnetic field is invisible, but it can be detected using a magnetic compass ... or the magnetic field of a magnet. place the plotting compass near the magnet on a piece of paper mark the ...

Check your compass again ... referencing systems that use the geomagnetic field. Scientists from 19 international institutions release a complementary magnetic model called the International ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...