Doomsayers would have a field day proclaiming the end ... The Earth is not alone in this fickleness: The sun's magnetic shield appears to reverse its polarity approximately every 11 years.

This article was originally published with the title “ Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 216 No. 2 (February 1967), p. 44 doi:10.1038 ...

Reversals don’t happen instantly, but over a period of thousands of years as the magnetic field gradually weakens ... It deflects the cosmic rays that constantly whiz through space from our sun and ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Magnetic Fields on the Quiet Sun ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 215 No. 5 (November 1966), p. 54 doi:10.1038 ...

NASA has released a computer model that shows the sun's beautiful, unpredictable, and invisible magnetic field lines. Produced by Darren Weaver. Original reporting by Dave Mosher. Follow TI ...

The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections ...

The last full reversal, the Brunhes–Matuyama event, occurred 780,000 years ago. Around 41,000 years ago, the Laschamp event saw a brief but dramatic magnetic field reversal, lasting only 440 ...

They could see neither visual landmarks, nor their fellow, non-captive robins, nor the sun or stars ... weakening or even complete reversal of the magnetic field. "My gut reaction is it's not ...

Recently, a research team found a new way to control the magnetic reversal in a special material called Co 3 Sn 2 S 2, a Weyl semimetal. The team was led by Prof. Qu Zhe from the Hefei Institutes ...