Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Until the arrival of GPS, the magnetic compass was the single most useful navigational tool available to humans. But it’s a recent invention. Although Chinese explorers understood the principles of ...

A new record has been set. China has just created a magnetic field 800,000 times more powerful than Earth's using a resistive magnet. This achievement is the result of years of hard work ...

On Earth, a compass always points north—but when you drift outside our planet's magnetosphere, things get more complicated.

From the first application of the oxide magnetite as a compass in China in ancient times, and from the early middle ages in Europe, magnetic materials have become an indispensable part of our daily ...