About 41,000 years ago, the Earth’s magnetic field suddenly flipped. Positive became negative, and negative became positive.

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

The new record was set on September 22 at the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, narrowly edging out the ...

The reversal itself took roughly 250 years to fully unfold and persisted for about 440 years before the magnetic field ...

Combining the satellite data with evidence of magnetic field line movements on Earth, European geoscientists mapped the ...

Although brain-implanted electrodes do help minimize the effects of Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders, ...

(There’s more cosmic radiation at the poles due to the shape of the Earth’s protective magnetic field – the same reason ...

Flip Flop Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the ...

Stargazers should prepare themselves for an uptick in aurora borealis -- or northern lights -- activity as the current solar ...

Peacock’s new sci-fi thriller Teacup drops a rural community inside a mysterious electromagnetic trap from which death is the ...

A team of computer engineers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NTT Corporation and ...

The most recent major reversal, known as the Laschamps event, occurred approximately 40,000 years ago and left a lasting ...