The Unprecedented Speed of Past Reversals A study by geophysicists from UC Berkeley and their Italian and French colleagues ...

As well as a few temporary reversals, the Earth's magnetic field – just like the Sun – can flip over long timescales. During the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, the magnetic north could have been ...

In between these full geomagnetic reversals, which can last up to 10,000 years, we find shorter disruptions to the Earth’s magnetic field. These events are known as geomagnetic excursions.

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At ...

Reversals don’t happen instantly, but over a period of thousands of years as the magnetic field gradually weakens. Though its strength has decreased by about 10 percent at Earth’s surface since ...

Recently, a research team found a new way to control the magnetic reversal in a special material called Co3Sn2S2, a Weyl ...

Around 41,000 years ago, the Laschamp event saw a brief but dramatic magnetic field reversal, lasting only 440 years with a field strength just 25% of today’s. During flips, Earth can develop ...

If the Earth's field is disrupted ... The phenomenon "may be linked to the Earth's history of magnetic pole reversals, which have occurred nearly 200 times over the past 100 million years ...

Experts over at NASA have discovered a monumental 'weak spot' in Earth's magnetic field is growing and it could have ...