A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Loggerhead turtles navigate using magnetic fields, and new research has revealed more about this remarkable ability.

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

This transformation is believed to be occurring at the boundary where the solid inner core meets the scorching hot liquid ...

Scientists discover turtles use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, proving animals can ...