Could decades of magnetospheric theory have been looking at Earth’s electric heart the wrong way around? The answer, in new ...

Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New satellite data and advanced simulations show that the morning side of the ...

It would be an understatement to say that the Earth's magnetic field is important. It's one of the reasons we're able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous ...

IS COMING NEAR YOU. WELL, TODAY’S WINDS BROUGHT DOWN A TREE IN SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP AND THAT BROUGHT DOWN WIRES TRAPPING A PERSON. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS SHARING THESE PHOTOS FROM EVANS FIELD POWER ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of the magnetic field stretching from South America to western Africa. Wherever the ...

The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is significantly reduced compared to its surrounding area, has grown by an area nearly the size of ...

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If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...