Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

This new study indicates that a significant weakening of Earth’s magnetic field around 590 million years ago might have played a critical role in the development of complex life forms.

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Earth’s magnetic field has long served ... Their work, published in Science Advances, connects the weakening magnetic field with a spike in human behavioral changes. One key adaptation may ...

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

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Such reversals in the Earth's magnetic field ... Moreover, while a severe weakening or disappearance of the magnetic field would lay us open to harmful radiation from the sun, there's little ...

Earth’s moving interior generates our planet’s magnetic field, an invisible shield that helps protect us and our atmosphere from harmful energy coming from space. This magnetic field has a ...

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