During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protective force fields exist and you’re already living inside one. About 1,800 miles beneath the ground you’ll reach the border ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that the Earth's magnetic field is important would be an understatement. It's one of the reasons we live on this pretty ...

Earth spins, shifts, and now… flips? Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany recently mapped ...

In recent research by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a groundbreaking discovery was made about braided magnetic flux ropes, which are found both in laboratory ...

Earth’s magnetic field is often described as a steady shield, but the geological record tells a more restless story. Polarity flips, when magnetic north and south swap places, happen several times per ...

Scientists discover that the Earth's magnetic poles can take up to 70,000 years to reverse, much longer than previously ...

Geologists have detected a magnetic tug-of-war taking place between the two regions beneath Canada and Siberia that will affect us and our wildlife.

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within the ...