Magnetism
Latest about magnetism
![A venus flytrap in a dark background.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iSqZnbfY6PADRzdhFSFPAR-320-80.jpg)
Venus flytraps produce magnetic fields when they eat
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
These carnivorous plants generate tiny magnetic signals when they clamp down on insects.
![High power circular energy field, magnetism.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/U9xfiPTX75tv83WFKkaDxK-320-80.jpg)
Physicists could do the 'impossible': Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar
By Stephanie Pappas published
The ability to cancel and induce magnetic fields from a distance could improve biomedicine.
![Stacking monolayer and bilayer graphene sheets with a twist leads to new collective electronic states, including a rare form of magnetism.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZXFH4wwDfj7wRg775f3MFV-320-80.jpg)
Rare magnetism found in the world's strongest material
By Stephanie Pappas published
Strange things happen when you stack and twist graphene.
![Something caused a giant black hole's bright corona to wink out. Researchers suspect it may have been a collision with a star, illustrated here.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qbZs8iy4WtkBgYxpzJskR9-320-80.jpg)
Mysterious force destroys monster black hole's ring of plasma
By Rafi Letzter published
Telescopes all over the world watched a bright flash light up space around a distant, supermassive black hole. And then, within hours, it was gone.
![An illustration of Earth's magnetic field.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jCNtZeAMEkLhoqoq4nUTWh-320-80.jpg)
'Vigorous' magnetic field oddity spotted over South Atlantic
By Stephanie Pappas published
European satellites are investigating the development of two distinct weak points within the South Atlantic Anomaly of Earth's magnetic field.
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The north magnetic pole is leaving Canada for Siberia. These 'blobs' may be the reason why.
By Laura Geggel published
While the blob under Canada has weakened, the blob under Siberia has strengthened.
![A photo shows the cliffside in Japan's Chiba prefecture that's part of a line of sediment that recorded the geologic history of the planet between 770,000 and 126,000 years ago.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WzLkfSZnu8jjiwDnLMTxb7-320-80.jpg)
Earth has a new geologic age: The Chibanian
By Rafi Letzter published
It's all thanks to a cliff by a river in Japan.
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