The public is enamored of images returned to Earth by space probes. Whether they show the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, or the icy surface of Pluto, these captivating images garner loads of ...

From navigation to solar weather forecasting, many different areas of research require space-based sensors to measure Earth's magnetic field as accurately as possible at any given moment. So far, ...

Chinese researchers have completed what they describe as a first deep-sea field test of a diamond-based quantum magnetometer, a device that could one day help detect the faint magnetic signatures of ...

The researchers fabricated chip-based interferometers (pictured) to measure how light propagating through a magneto-optic material changed in response to a magnetic field. WASHINGTON — Researchers ...

Searches for pseudo-magnetic spin couplings require implementation of techniques capable of sensitive detection of such interactions. While Spin-Exchange Relaxation Free (SERF) magnetometry is one of ...