Introduced by electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego, a new wireless communication method works by sending magnetic signals through the human body, and offers a lower-power, ...

For most of modern science, humans were believed to lack any ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field. Magnetoreception was considered a specialised adaptation found in migratory birds, sea turtles, ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...