Earth's magnetic field acts as a vital shield against radiation arriving from space, but it is not constant. A new international study has examined how a reduction of the magnetic field similar to the ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These geomagnetic reversals can take thousands of years, but shorter disruptions—called ...

Paleomagnetic records are the remnant magnetisation preserved in rocks, sediments and speleothems that faithfully archive the orientation and intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field through geological ...

Something massive is happening beneath your feet right now, and most people have absolutely no idea. Earth's magnetic field, the invisible force that protects all life on this planet and guides ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Dr Sanja Panovska, project leader in Section 2.3 “Geomagnetism” at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her “EXCURSION” project. The ...

Magnetism arises from the motion and quantum spin of electrons in materials, producing fields that can be mapped by their intensity and direction. The Earth itself behaves as a giant magnet, whose ...

Earth’s magnetic field acts as a vital shield against radiation arriving from space, but it is not constant. A new international study has examined how a reduction of the magnetic field similar to the ...