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

Learn about Mars' defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern ...

The Earth's magnetic field shields life from harmful solar and cosmic radiation. A weakening field could increase genetic mutations, potentially raising cancer rates. Additionally, a reversal ...

A recent study led by the University of Michigan suggests that Homo sapiens who inhabited Europe around 41,000 years ago may ...

The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nanoparticles and materials.

Likewise, a wire passing through a magnetic field creates an electric current within the wire. This is the basic principle that allows electric motors and generators to operate. In the Earth (see ...

Geophysicist Daniel Lathrop wants, among other things, to use it to predict when the Earth’s magnetic field will next reverse. Over the course of our planet’s history, the field has flipped ...

The Earth’s magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nano particles and materials. Scientists at Flinders ...

Now Chyba and co have shown that such a conductor can extract electrical energy directly from Earth's rotation through its own magnetic field. Their experiment is relatively simple. It turns out that ...

Creatures from migratory eels and other fish species to insects to birds tap into the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, sometimes many thousands of miles. But so far, evidence has been scant for any ...

Then, in 1973, two geophysicists called Christopher Russell and Robert McPherron presented a theory involving the magnetic fields of the Earth and the Sun. Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s ...