Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in ...

The World Magnetic Model. The WMM is a map of the Earth's magnetic field. ... “Imagine someone planning to travel by sleigh from a chimneytop in South Africa to a snow-covered roof in the UK, ...

For safe space travel, a better grasp of turbulence and high-energy particle creation is practically significant. ... Powerful supercomputer maps world’s largest magnetic turbulence in the galaxy.

This map shows areas on the globe where there are disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field. Here, red indicates a stronger magnetic tug, and blue a weaker one (white lines are the edges of ...

These days, however, these views have become so common most aren't surprised at new satellite maps—unless, that is, it shows Earth’s magnetic field. As the BBC’s Jonathan Amos reports , a ...

However, the magnetic north pole is moving faster than normal resulting in a new out of cycle release for the WMM. Normally, new WMM maps are released every five years, and the next release was ...

Birds use massive magnetic maps to migrate – and some could cover the whole world Published: February 14, 2021 5:34am EST Richard Holland , Bangor University , Dmitry Kishkinev , Keele University ...

The magnetic field that surrounds our planet is constantly shifting. But lately, near the Arctic, it’s been so active that researchers had to release a crucial update to the World Magnetic Model ...

Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, sometimes returning home after months away. Though there has been a lot of ...

Sharks can read Earth’s magnetic field like a map, study suggests Bonnetheads – and likely other migratory species – appear to have built-in ‘polarity-based compasses’, reports Jon ...

Scientists map and track Earth's magnetic field using something called the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which was jointly developed by the British Geological Survey and the National Centers for ...

Migrating birds use a magnetic map to travel long distances Published: August 17, 2017 12:02pm EDT. ... but our findings could open up a whole new world of research. Bird migration; Migratory birds; ...