When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Magnetic minerals locked inside artifacts from ancient civilizations reveal a snapshot of Earth’s magnetic field at the time. That, in turn, could give us insights into its future. | Credit: Wei-An Jin In 2008, Erez Ben-Yosef unearthed a piece of Iron Age “trash” …
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How to Build a Magnetic Field Stronger Than a Star – Using a Laser – SciTechDaily
How to Build a Magnetic Field Stronger Than a Star – Using a Laser SciTechDaily This laser implosion just created a magnetic field like a neutron star ScienceDaily ‘Blades of light’: Japan tech mimics star-level magnetic force in tiny chambers Interesting Engineering Blades of light: A tabletop method for generating megatesla magnetic fields Phys.org Source link
Read More »Earth’s magnetic field is weakening — magnetic crystals from lost civilizations could hold the key to understanding why
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 working in southern Jordan with Ron Shaar, who was analyzing archaeological materials around the Levant. Shaar, a geologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was building a record of the area’s …
Read More »Notes from the Field: Early-Season Human Plague Transmitted from an Infected Cat — Oregon, January 2024
Investigation and Outcomes On January 19, 2024, a 2-year-old cat began receiving veterinary care in Central Oregon for a neck abscess and vomiting. The cat was initially treated with an oral antibiotic. On January 24, the abscess was excised and drained by a veterinarian. On January 25, the cat’s owner, a man aged 73 years, cut his right index finger …
Read More »Eli Drinkwitz pitches 30-team College Football Playoff field with play-in games
Several numbers are out there as far as how big the next expansion of the College Football Playoff could be. The total for Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz, as he said this morning at the podium, is 30 teams playing to be in a field. Drinkwitz was asked for his thoughts on CFP expansion while at SEC Media Days in Atlanta on …
Read More »Prince Harry retraces Diana’s footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charity
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prince Harry followed in his late mother’s footsteps on Wednesday by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity’s work clearing explosives from old warzones. The Duke of Sussex is in the southern African country with the Halo Trust …
Read More »Rays To Play Home Games At Steinbrenner Field Throughout Playoffs
If the Rays are able to engineer a deep postseason run, they will be allowed to stay at Steinbrenner Field. “Our rule has always been that people play in their home stadiums during the World Series Game,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said this week, per Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times. “And I’m not of a mind to change …
Read More »Asteroid Three Times Larger Than a Football Field Zooms Past Earth Today
Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close flyby of Earth. Traveling at over 20,000 miles per hour, it is set to pass a safe distance of six million kilometers from our planet. While the size and speed of this space rock are certainly noteworthy, there is no …
Read More »Rays would host games at Steinbrenner Field if in playoffs
Jesse Rogers Close Jesse Rogers ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Jul 15, 2025, 02:33 PM ET The Tampa Bay Rays will play potential postseason games at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, setting up the possibility of a World Series staged in a minor league stadium with a capacity of …
Read More »Sound of Earth’s Flipping Magnetic Field Haunts Again From 780,000 Years Ago : ScienceAlert
In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an eerie, auditory experience. Now a team containing some of those same scientists has sonified an even earlier flip, from epochs ago. The resulting cacophony is an unnerving translation of geological data on the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal, a switching of the planet’s magnetic …
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