Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other ...

Earth’s magnetic field has flipped 171 times over the last 71 million years, with the last reversal about 780,000 years ago. A weakening magnetic field could impact satellites and GPS, but changes ...

In medicine permanent magnets demonstrate unique advantages in terms of field strength, tunability of field and gradient distributions, and practical implementation. The findings highlight the ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably ...

Discover how powerful the strongest magnet on Earth really is, what it can do, and where it’s used in advanced scientific and industrial applications.

The scope of nuclear fusion power has taken a huge step forward with the pulsed superconducting magnet system, which sits in the center of ITER's tokamak reactor in Southern France, as reported by ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a ...

In an Earth-sized take on the age-old ‘correlation or causality’ question, researchers have come across a fascinating match between Earth’s magnetic field and its oxygen levels si… ...

Mukhopadhyay’s research suggests that a shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles around 41,000 years ago, known as the Laschamp event, may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals. Agnit ...

Earth’s Magnetic Field Might Weirdly Be Controlling the Air We Breathe, Scientists Say Magnetism and oxygen may intrinsically influence each other, but experts aren’t sure why.

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

It turns out bogong moths possess a most extraordinary ability to navigate, harnessing Earth’s magnetic field and the stars as compasses to follow their inherited migratory direction.