How do pigeons know where they're going while flying across vast distances? Researchers point to their inner ear system.

Pigeons may sense Earth's magnetic field using special cells in the inner ear. This discovery explains how they navigate long ...

Physicists have calculated how suitable molecules can be stimulated by infrared light pulses to form tiny magnetic fields. If this is also successful in experiments, the principle could be used in ...

Preparing and manipulating pure magnetic states in molecular systems are the key initial requirements for harnessing the power of synthetic chemistry to drive practical quantum sensing and computing ...

Stars form when gravity pulls together material within giant clouds of gas and dust. But gravity isn’t the only force at work. Both turbulence and magnetic fields battle gravity, either by stirring ...

In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale --quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density ...

Molecular spintronics amalgamates the quantum properties of molecular systems with spin-dependent transport in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), offering a pathway to novel device architectures for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Many animals are known to navigate by sensing the Earth’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1848, when Louis Pasteur was a young chemist still years away from discovering how to sterilize milk, he discovered something ...