Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

There Could Be a Hidden Link Between Earth's Magnetic Field and Oxygen, Say Researchers The elements of the natural world had inherent connections, but new research brought to light one that was ...

New NASA research demonstrates that 540 million years of Earth’s magnetic field changes have corresponded to surface ...

Sometimes, they're medium-strength, like Earth's. Other times, they are incredibly strong, like the ones powered by magnetars. Most of these magnetic fields have a plausible origin story.

Unraveling the sun's magnetic architecture is key to understanding phenomena like solar flares, eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which drive space weather and can impact Earth.

And that’s exactly what happened, at least some of the time. When the young sharks were exposed to the magnetic field of the place they were caught, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, they swam in ...

When set spinning, the setup mimics the roiling liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core, which forms electrical currents that generate the magnetic field in a process called a dynamo.

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