Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth?A new study reports that researchers have successfully used ...

A wild idea has been proposed to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation with the help of magnetic fields. A new ...

A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S ...

The inner core plays a crucial role in generating Earth's magnetic field through a process known ... in the opposite direction relative to the rotation of the Earth's surface.

"Flow in the outer core drives the geodynamo that sustains the magnetic field. This flow is aligned with the Earth's rotation axis and influenced by how the heat is extracted from the core ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...

We all know that the Earth is in constant motion - it is something we learnt in school, and while we might not feel it at all, our planet is constantly moving, completing one rotation around the ...

As this material is often conductive, it will likely affect the Earth’s magnetic field, as argued by [Sierra Solter-Hunt] in a pre-publication article. Although the speculation by [Sierra] can ...

If Earth stopped spinning ... The planet would also lose its magnetic field, which protects us from solar wind and coronal mass ejections. As a result, it… People in industrial societies ...