Image: Sasha Stowe “It’s what Indiana Jones would carry his Switch 2 around in.” – Jim Norman, 2025 He’s not wrong, though. The Magnetic Case for the Switch 2 from WaterField Designs looks like something straight out of Raider of the Lost Ark. It’s a simple, but effortlessly timeless-looking design, and should anyone see you out and about with it, …
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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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Recent shifts in Earth’s magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet’s magnetic poles to sporadically wander, new research shows we’ve now amassed enough water behind dam walls to account for at least some of the current movements. Harvard University geophysicist Natasha Valencic and colleagues calculated that the masses concentrated in just under …
Read More »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
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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 …
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Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo, a company that arguably makes some of the finest third-party controllers for the Switch, has announced its new ‘Pro 3’ model. Compatible with Switch 1 and Switch 2, it looks pretty familiar to the Pro 2 – why fix what isn’t broken ‘n’ all that – but comes with a wealth of features that will hopefully justify …
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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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A new sunspot is putting on a spectacular show in our solar system, capturing the attention of astronomers and astrophotographers alike. Located in sunspot region 4136, this region is currently crackling with magnetic explosions, known as Ellerman bombs, and is heading straight toward Earth. These events have been caught in vivid detail by French astrophotographer Philippe Tosi, who photographed the …
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Magnetic explosions known as Ellerman bombs surround a sunspot in this photo from astrophotographer Philippe Tosi (Earth added for scale). (Image credit: Philippe Tosi) A new sunspot emerging over the eastern limb of the sun is putting on an explosive show and it’s heading our way. Sunspot region 4136 was recently captured crackling with dozens of magnetic explosions known as …
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