Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say is one of the most “drastic events in the evolution of ...

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...

In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an ...

July 9 could be the shortest day of your life as the Earth's accelerating rotation is expected to make today fly by quicker ...

The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon now lacks a global magnetic field, its rocks—especially those on the ...

When Earth’s magnetic field gradually shifts over time (a natural phenomenon called secular variation), nesting patterns of sea turtles appear to shift correspondingly, following the magnetic ...

When exposed to an artificial magnetic field that mimicked Earth’s natural one, the birds oriented as expected. However, when the magnetic field was altered, the birds changed their orientation ...

Did ancient sunscreen and sewing needles save humanity? In a nutshell 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to just 10% of its current strength, causing auroras to appear globally ...

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 ...

The turtles rely on Earth’s magnetic field to help them navigate in two ways. A magnetic map aids with location tracking, and a magnetic compass orients them in the right direction.