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Listen to the terrifying sound of Earth's north and south poles 'flipping' 780,000 years ago - as experts warn another flip could be imminent
The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.
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Brunhes-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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Humanity 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 ...
Whoopsie, Humans Built So Many Dams That We Shifted the North Pole by 3 Feet
The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...
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Listen to The Sound of The Earth's Magnetic Field Switching Poles 780,000 Years Ago — And It's Eerie
Geological data of the processes shifting magnetic poles within the planet for a large epoch in history was sonified into an ...
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Astronomers Spot Strange Activity Over Jupiter’s North Pole That Could Lead to a Paradigm Shift in Plasma Physics
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.
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Humans survived harmful radiation after Earth’s magnetic field weakened 41,000 years ago
Earth’s magnetic field weakened to a fraction of its usual strength, it allowed more harmful solar radiation to reach the surface ...