What if Earth’s magnetic field disappeared tomorrow? Explore the catastrophic effects on life, technology, and the planet’s ...

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.

Increased auroral activity will likely result from geomagnetic storms Friday and Saturday amid “influence” from a coronal ...

A map shows the Pacific Ring of Fire ... outer core—the dynamo-like process that generates the magnetic field that protects life on Earth from harmful cosmic rays. "Flow in the outer core ...

Many migratory birds use Earth’s magnetic field as a compass, but some can also use information from that field to determine more or less where they are on a mental map. Eurasian reed warblers ...

FROM a knowledge of the mass of the Earth and its moment of inertia and from an analysis of seismic data, Bullen 1 has reconstructed a pressure-density curve for the Earth's interior. The outer ...

It creates the Earth's magnetic field and is about 1,400 miles (2,300 ... Instead, scientists map the interior by watching how seismic waves from earthquakes are bent, reflected, sped up, or ...