Articles for tag: EarthScience, EarthsMagneticField, GeomagneticReversal, PlanetEarth

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Why The Earth’s Magnetic Field Keeps Flipping

Suhail Ahmed

  Every so often in Earth’s deep history, our planet’s magnetic north and south trade places, leaving a barcode of polarity stripes in the seafloor and a trail of mystery for geophysicists. The stakes feel dramatic: this invisible shield deflects much of the solar and cosmic radiation that would otherwise batter our technology and, over ...