A new video shows how Earth's magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent "polar reversal ...

About 41,000 years ago, the Earth’s magnetic field suddenly flipped. Positive became negative, and negative became positive.

The magnetic field that cocoons Earth, shielding us from the sun’s most dangerous rays, has not always been so stable. About ...

Twisting tungsten disulfide crystals allows researchers to control electron movement and enhance optical properties, ...

The reversal itself took roughly 250 years to fully unfold and persisted for about 440 years before the magnetic field ...

In a groundbreaking project, scientists have transformed data from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite mission into ...

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

The new record was set on September 22 at the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, narrowly edging out the ...

Although brain-implanted electrodes do help minimize the effects of Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders, ...

A team of computer engineers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NTT Corporation and ...

Flip Flop Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the ...

The most recent major reversal, known as the Laschamps event, occurred approximately 40,000 years ago and left a lasting ...