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GPS systems, planes and military equipment track the magnetic field and rely on accurate models of magnetic north to function ...
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Live Science on MSNEarth's magnetic field is weakening — magnetic crystals from lost civilizations could hold the key to understanding why
Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...
The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.
Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...
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ScienceAlert on MSNHumanity Has Dammed So Much Water It's Shifted Earth's Magnetic Poles
Recent shifts in Earth's magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet's magnetic poles to sporadically wander, new research shows we've now amassed enough ...
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ZME Science on MSNHumans Built So Many Dams, We’ve Shifted the Planet’s Poles
The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...
New research has revealed that humans have built so many dams that the Earth's poles have shifted slightly. According to ...
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IFLScience on MSNNew Plasma Waves Over Jupiter’s North Pole Have Never Been Seen Before In The Solar System
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IFLScience on MSNBrunhes-Matuyama Reversal: Listen The Earth's Magnetic Fields Flip 780,000 Years In The Past
The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...
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Newspoint on MSNEarth’s Magnetic Field: 10 Mind-blowing Facts You Never Knew
Earth's magnetic field protects from solar radiation. It originates from molten core motion. Magnetic north pole moves constantly. Field reversals occurred in the past. The field weakens in some areas ...
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DPA International on MSNThe world's dams hold enough water to shift the poles by a metre
The weight of water locked up in the world’s approximately 7,000 dams is enough to not only fill the Grand Canyon twice, but ...
Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say ...
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