The last true sustained reversal of the magnetic poles happened around 780,000 years ago, and is named the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal after the geophysicists who first found evidence for it.

This phenomenon has occurred multiple times in Earth’s history, with the last major reversal taking place approximately 780,000 years ago. Magnetic pole shifts are often viewed with an air of ...

The International Union of Geological Sciences has designated the time in Earth’s history from 770,000 to 126,000 years ago as the Chibanian, notable for being the most recent reversal of the planet’s ...

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 ...

Recently, a research team found a new way to control the magnetic reversal in a special material called Co3Sn2S2, a Weyl ...