The Earth’s magnetic field is a shield that protects us from the sun’s harmful radiation. It’s a fascinating phenomenon that ...

The Earth's magnetic field is created deep within our ... Glatzmaier-Roberts computer model and see what happens during a reversal. —Rick Groleau ...

A 2471 B.C. solar eclipse may have triggered a break from Egypt’s sun worship, influencing Pharaoh Shepsekaf’s defiance and ...

Satellites passing through this area often experience malfunctions, with systems crashing, data corruption, and equipment ...

Earth's magnetic field flips every 200,000 to 300,000 years on average, but it's been 780,000 years since the last one.

We’re still here, so we’ll probably survive the next reversal ... liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core, which forms electrical currents that generate the magnetic field in a process ...

Would a dramatic change in the Earth's magnetic field affect creatures ... adjust to an acute weakening or even complete reversal of the magnetic field. "My gut reaction is it's not going to ...

A diagram shows the mechanisms feeding Earth's two LLVPs ... this is thought to lead to a magnetic field reversal." A reversal would see the geomagnetic field temporarily weaken—and might ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 216 No. 2 (February 1967), p. 44 doi:10.1038 ...

If the Earth's field is disrupted ... The phenomenon "may be linked to the Earth's history of magnetic pole reversals, which have occurred nearly 200 times over the past 100 million years ...