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Over 40,000 years ago, Earth's magnetic field pulled a switcheroo, flipping its poles in a dramatic shift known as the ...

A new international study using ancient swamp kauri from Northland shows that Earth’s magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago ...

A 42,000-year-old tree reveals Earth’s last magnetic pole flip, exposing the planet to deadly radiation. Scientists warn a ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

Understanding the Mystique of Magnetic Pole Shifts Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, ...

With the right preparations and technological solutions in place, aviation would continue to operate safely, even during a ...

Bree Fram was an Air Force major in 2016 when word came down that the Obama administration would soon be lifting its ban on transgender troops serving in the military following a yearlong study ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair ...

Cognitive flexibility helps us to navigate through our ever-changing environment and has often been examined by reversal learning paradigms. Performance in reversal learning can be modeled using ...