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

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

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 ...

The Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority said, despite a media report to the contrary, it is ready to take on ...

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

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially ...

The latest version of the WMM includes a much higher resolution map of magnetic north than ever before to help reduce errors in navigation systems. Scientists say that if you tried traveling the 5,280 ...

Stealth may soon be an impossible feat for submarines, after scientists found a way to detect even the quietest underwater ...

For US submarines operating in waters near China, the era of absolute stealth may be ending – one magnetic ripple at a time. Researchers with Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Hysteresis loops were obtained by cycling the magnetic field between ±1.0 T, with a step size of 5 mT. These measurements were made using a Lakeshore 8600 vibrating sample magnetometer (software ...