The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

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 ...

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The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ultra-high-energy cosmic rays – but much remains unknown about these rare events ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...