Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

Roughly 42,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened dramatically during the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion, allowing more cosmic radiation to reach the atmosphere. In a peer‑reviewed study of ...

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Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of years. Using ancient magnetic records and advanced simulations, scientists ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

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Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ago -- diversified ...

A research team from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...

A novel method to manipulate the inner structure of cells connects several scientific fields and could represent a ...

Eventually, the blob of molten material beneath Canada split in two and the stronger one slowly shifted toward the blob beneath Siberia. This spurred the magnetic north pole to slip closer and closer ...

antiferromagnetism: In substances known as antiferromagnets, the magnetic moments of adjacent atoms tend to line up antiparallel, yielding an ordered state with no net magnetic moment. Consequently, ...