Imagine the drastic changes to Earth's magnetic field and internal heat if our planet had no core.

Core memory, magnetized memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wires, is now more than five decades obsolete, yet it exerts a fascination for hardware hackers still. Not least ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...

It’s about the charm and magnetism that some people radiate as they get older. Have you ever wondered why certain individuals ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

Since its 1970 debut, DRAM has supplanted magnetic core memory as an essential element in von Neumann's computer architecture. By the mid-1980s, fueled by the popularity of PCs and workstations, DRAM ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.