Consumer-grade metal detectors can help you discover everything from buried treasure to loose change or hidden wiring. Many people enjoy spending hours sweeping over beaches or abandoned property in ...

On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their scanners led them to an ornate 24cm dagger covered in stars and crescent ...

Modern smartphones are packed with a wide range of sensors, and their magnetometer can successfully identify certain kinds of ...

Introduction: The Thrill of the Hunt Imagine walking across a field, the sun setting on the horizon, and suddenly, a sharp, ...

Tiny deviations: the new metal detector looks for minute disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field. (Courtesy: iStock/muffinmaker) A compact, low-cost and low-power metal detector that can identify the ...

Almost every place we enter these days, there’s a metal detector waiting for us to walk through it. While these detectors are ...

Simon Weller, his nine-year-old daughter and 79-year-old dad made the find while metal detecting. Funeral director Jason Price "deceived thousands" of people by planting the Leasingham horse brooch.