A magnetometer measurement is an experimental procedure in which a magnetometer is used to quantitatively determine the magnitude and/or vector components of a magnetic field or magnetic moment under defined conditions. In methodological terms, it encompasses instrument calibration, control of environmental magnetic noise, selection of measurement geometry, and acquisition protocols such as scanning, time-resolved, or field-swept modes. Depending on the magnetometer type (e.g., SQUID, vibrating sample, Hall-effect, fluxgate), the measurement constrains sensitivity, spatial resolution, dynamic range, and bandwidth, and is used to characterize material magnetization, field gradients, or local magnetic environments in fundamental research and applied sensing.
Scientists are working to understand how magnetic currents from the sun spread beneath Earth's crust when the northern lights dance across the sky. Their goal is to tame its "dark twin" and prevent damage to our power grid.
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Some bacterial species possess an astonishing ability: They use Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves. To better understand this mechanism, the team led by Argovia-Professor Martino Poggio from the Swiss Nanoscience ...
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Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature. Every so often, the magnetic north and south poles swap places in what are called geomagnetic reversals, ...
Planetary Sciences
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Magnetism on the moon has always been a bit confusing. Remote sensing probes have noted there is some magnetic signature, but far from the strong cocoon that surrounds Earth itself. Previous attempts to detect it in returned ...
Planetary Sciences
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Researchers have developed a precision magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response to a magnetic field. The device, which is integrated onto a chip, could benefit space missions, navigation ...
Condensed Matter
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For just over two years, a scalar magnetometer developed by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has been on its way to Jupiter as part of ESA's ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 13, 2025
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A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a compact dynamic cantilever magnetometer with a diameter of just 22 mm, achieving magnetic moment sensitivity ...
Condensed Matter
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A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms.
Optics & Photonics
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A research team has discovered the Fano resonance interference effect between mixed atomic spins. They proposed a novel magnetic noise suppression technique, reducing magnetic noise interference by at least two orders of ...
General Physics
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