Powerful magnetic fields around active stars may trap huge coronal mass ejections before they can escape into space.

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the sun toward Earth. Here, it meets Earth's magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella project ...

Researchers produced 1.58-tesla magnetic fields and changed the shock layer around models traveling through simulated reentry ...

What scientists increasingly understand is that bird navigation is far more complex than simply following familiar landmarks.

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High magnetic fields are a vital tool in many areas of science and technology that impact our everyday lives, from medical diagnostics through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to drug discovery ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his lab. AMES, Iowa – A tiny, solid sample of a drug, complete with active and inactive ...

“Clearly the sun is not a good standard star for the discussion of stellar activity,” Böhm-Vitense wrote. But she wondered if ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...