“This is the first very clear evidence and strong evidence for the ability of human beings to detect and transduce the earth’s magnetic field,” says Eric Warrant, a neuroethologist at Lund University ...

Researchers have recently shown that the brainwaves of human beings respond to changes in magnetic fields, though it’s far from clear whether or not we can make any navigational use of this effect.

The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications. Scientists know well how conventional materials, such as metals and insulators, ...

Accompanying those electrical signals are tiny magnetic fields that have only recently been tapped for information into how the human body works. “Our natural magnetic fields offer a different ...

Earth’s magnetism is pretty easy to forget about, being invisible to the human eye and all that ... Mars may have once had a protective magnetic field, and that its loss led to the erosion ...

Would a dramatic change in the Earth's magnetic field affect creatures that rely on it during migration? Late on a January night in 1993 I found myself on a beach on the Pacific coast of Costa ...