It would be an understatement to say that the Earth's magnetic field is important. It's one of the reasons we're able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous ...

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Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years. A weak region in Earth's magnetic field has ...

The magnetic field that protects our planet is shifting – and one region is fading fast. Over the South Atlantic, a weak spot in Earth’s magnetic shield has grown steadily since 2014. It now stretches ...

A weak spot in the Earth's magnetic field is growing over the South Atlantic Ocean, according to more than a decade's worth of satellite data collected by scientists. The magnetic field surrounding ...

A giant dent in Earth's magnetic field is continuing to expand, according to the latest data from a trio of satellites monitoring our world. It's called the South Atlantic Anomaly, stretching across ...

Inside its boundaries, the magnetic field that radiates away from Earth's interior dips down to an altitude of about 120 miles (200 kilometers) above the planet's surface, which is much lower than the ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects of viscosity in their simulation, they revealed a self-sustaining dynamo ...

A research team led by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an all-superconducting magnet system that reached a steady-state magnetic field of 35.1 tesla and ...

The conversion efficiency of the solar cells or the power of the photovoltaic modules are measured under the standard conditions: AM 1.5G spectrum, 1000 W/m2, and the temperature at 25 °C. However, in ...