Such is the case with the Earth's magnetic field. Every so often, our planet's magnetic poles reverse polarity (see When Compasses Point South). Compass needles have always pointed north ...

Modeling Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field from 41,000 years ago suggests how Homo sapiens' sun-fighting strategy helped ...

These advances may have been particularly advantageous when Earth’s magnetic poles switched a bit, according to a study published April 16 in the journal Science Advances. Earth’s magnetic ...

The research is detailed in a study published last week in the journal Science ... magnetic field has a north and south orientation, which currently roughly aligns with Earth’s North and South ...

published in Science Advances and led by researchers at Michigan Engineering and the U-M Department of Anthropology. The team found that the North Pole wandered over Europe when the magnetic field ...