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A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ends of the magnetosphere, which surrounds the Earth like a giant, invisible ...

Earth’s magnetic field is a dipole field with two poles, like a bar magnet. When the poles flip, it could cause chaos for future humans.

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...

You might be scared if you heard Earth’s North Pole and South Pole were about to flip positions. The sun is about to do the same thing, and it’s not a worry for us. The sun is a big magnetic ...

The south magnetic pole is also moving, though at a much slower rate (10-15km a year). This rapid wandering of the north magnetic pole has caused some problems for scientists and navigators alike.

Historically, Earth’s North and South magnetic poles have flipped every 200,000 or 300,000 years—except right now, they haven’t flipped successfully for about 780,000 years.

The north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast that it could be a problem for smartphone maps and navigation systems. But its swift pace toward Siberia in recent years at a rate of around 34 ...

Auroras lit up the sky as the magnetic field over the Earth weakened 42,000 years ago, possibly influencing climate, evolution and more. Unsplash ...

The last magnetic pole flip saw 22,000 years of weirdness When the Earth's magnetic poles trade places, they take a while to get sorted. Scott K. Johnson – Aug 11, 2019 10:00 am | 297 ...