Scientists uncover 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth’s magnetic field

Researchers at the University of Oxford and MIT have discovered a record of the Earth's magnetic field dating back 3.7 billion years. Read More

Researchers find oldest undisputed evidence of Earth's magnetic field

A new study, led by the University of Oxford and MIT, has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth ... Read More

Making light 'feel' a magnetic field like an electron would

Unlike electrons, particles of light are uncharged, so they do not respond to magnetic fields. Despite this, researchers have now experimentally made light effectively "feel" a magnetic field within a ... Read More

3.7 Billion Years Old: Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field Uncovered in Greenland

A collaborative study by the University of Oxford and MIT has uncovered a 3.7-billion-year-old magnetic field record from Greenland, demonstrating that Earth's ancient magnetic field was as strong as ... Read More

Here’s how magnetic fields shape desert ants’ brains

For desert ants, Earth’s magnetic field isn’t just ... e2320764121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2320764121. Saugat Bolakhe is a spring 2024 intern for Science News. He earned his undergraduate degree ... Read More

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and there's a good chance that one of these outbursts launched a solar storm toward Earth. On April 10, a bright red atmospheric "hole" was spotted in the night sky above Texas shortly after ... Read More

Experiment proves that humans can actually sense Earth’s magnetic field

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Everyone knows that when you hold a compass in your hand the needle will point north ... Read More

The Earth's Magnetic Field is Cracked, So Are We in Any Danger?

The Earth is protected by a powerful magnetic field that helps keep us and ... Most of these were probably absorbed by the Earth's magnificent atmosphere before reaching us, but still, this crack ... Read More

Moon’s Magnetic Field, Now Gone, Likely Shielded Early Earth

(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (CN) — Earth’s moon was once ... magnetic field, but it wasn’t until Apollo 12, with its more powerful magnetometer, that scientists discovered the field had declined to ... Read More

Satellite Internet Boom Could Disrupt Earth's Magnetic Field, Warns Physicist

potentially weakening or deflecting Earth's magnetic field. "We could get to 100,000 satellites in 10 to 15 years," Dr Jonathan McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics ... Read More