GPS systems, planes and military equipment track the magnetic field and rely on accurate models of magnetic north to function ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...