A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

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 ...

Understanding the Mystique of Magnetic Pole Shifts Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, ...

Understanding Earth’s Core Earth's core is the heart of our planet; it's a fiery furnace where temperatures soar higher than ...

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

With the right preparations and technological solutions in place, aviation would continue to operate safely, even during a ...

Transport Minister Chris Bishop (left) and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at Tauherenīkau, Wairarapa, where they announced the reversal of speed limit reductions on a number of New Zealand roads.

Earth's magnetic poles are shifting unpredictably, with rapid drifts and weakening fields raising questions about a possible future reversal and its global effects.

Their findings, published Dec. 11 in the journal Nature, could revolutionize the design of new high-speed magnetic memory devices ... of ferromagnets called time reversal symmetry breaking ...

There are nearly 183 occasions where Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped and is said to take place between 10,000 years and 50 million years in a random timescale. The last event occurred about ...

Companies and collectors alike love to brag about their anti-magnetic watches and how many gauss they can withstand. If you’ve wondered what that means and why it’s a big deal, you’re surely not alone ...