New research reveals how the invasive fall armyworm uses a combination of the Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to navigate during night-time migration.

There are millions of birds flying under the blue sky in this world. Whatever the weather conditions are, they fly high above in the sky and live their life freely. Beneath their effortless flight, ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

A ship’s steel hull distorts the Earth’s magnetic field, which can throw the magnetic compass dangerously off course. This explains how binnacles, Kelvin’s balls, Flinders bars, and other correctors ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...