A diagram shows the mechanisms feeding ... outer core—the dynamo-like process that generates the magnetic field that protects life on Earth from harmful cosmic rays. "Flow in the outer core ...

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Researchers are exploring new technologies for short-term earthquake forecasting and prediction - the application of the LAIC approach ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

Back in 1832, the celebrated British physicist, Michael Faraday, carried out a set of experiments designed to answer a tantalizing question: could electricity be generated by Earth's rotation through ...

We all know that the Earth is in constant motion - it is something we learnt in school, and while we might not feel it at all, our planet is constantly moving, completing one rotation around the ...

means that they affect how heat is extracted from the Earth's core. This impacts convection in the outer core -- a process that drives the magnetic field and protects us at the surface from ...