This type of magnetic field is known as a geodynamo, and the force field structure that deflects most of the solar wind and ...

Manufacturers reinforce them with magnetic shielding, using materials like mu-metal to redirect magnetic fields away from sensitive components. Products with built-in magnets, such as smartphone ...

Magnetic Shield Corporation manufactures and distributes magnetic shielding alloys available in a variety of sheets and coils. Magnetic Shield also custom fabricates to customer specifications. A lab ...

When I learned recently that our planet's magnetic shield is rapidly weakening and may be ready to reverse its polarity, causing compasses to point south, I immediately wondered what that would ...

As the time line at right shows, hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north ...