Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

A new study reports that researchers have successfully used a meticulously designed cylinder to harness electricity as it ...

Would a dramatic change in the Earth's magnetic field affect creatures that rely on it during migration? Late on a January night in 1993 I found myself on a beach on the Pacific coast of Costa ...

A study by geophysicists from UC Berkeley and their Italian and French colleagues has shed new light on Earth's last ... the links between magnetic reversals and climate change.

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

Such reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, they'd tell you, are, roughly speaking, as common as ice ages. That is, they're terrifically infrequent by human standards, but in geologic terms they ...

suggesting that such an event is directly linked to a dramatic change of the strength of Earth’s magnetic field. “This record reveals a substantial increase in the carbon-14 content of the ...

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it was before, raising questions about the planet's magnetic field. If the Earth's field is disrupted ...

Earth’s magnetic field is not fixed—it drifts ... shredded planet's surface 'Space Deathtrap': The terrifying way climate change could destroy low Earth orbit for good 'Moon Mission twist ...