Strong and compact, rare-earth magnets have found their way into everything from electric cars and wind turbines to MRI ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

Like the medical dramas of the 2000s, the following decade was swamped by shows about dance. One of the most prevalent was Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Bunheads,” which followed a former Vegas showgirl ...

The study, published in Science Advances, examines a dramatic event known as the Laschamps excursion. During this event, Earth’s magnetic poles temporarily shifted, and the magnetic field dropped to ...

while the magnetic poles wandered far from their usual locations. For about 300 years, the magnetic field tilted and weakened rapidly, behaving more like the multipolar magnetic fields of outer ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Earth’s Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and Australia. New research reveals how dramatically Earth’s ...

Earth's magnetic poles usually align with the north and south poles but occasionally wander from their traditional geographic positions in a process called geomagnetic excursions due to changes in ...

The period in question corresponds to the so-called Laschamps Event, a geophysical phenomenon that took place between 42,200 and 41,500 years ago, during which Earth’s magnetic poles shifted from ...

About 41,000 years ago, a temporary reversal of the poles occurred – known as the Laschamps excursion. It lasted about 1,000 years and weakened Earth’s magnetic field to about 10 per cent of ...

These advances may have been particularly advantageous when Earth’s magnetic poles switched a bit, according to a study published April 16 in the journal Science Advances. Earth’s magnetic ...

"Normally we only see the aurora at locations close to Earth’s magnetic north and south poles because charged particles from the sun get trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field and funnelled to ...