Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth’s magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

Check your compass again — Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place ... If you're using a compass or a GPS system, knowing exactly where these points are is crucial. "The current behaviour of magnetic north is ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s magnetic north and its chaotic and relatively unpredictable movements.