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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 ...

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 ...

A team of U.S. researchers has pulled off a double win for electric vehicles: making batteries safer and recycling them more effectively. According to a recent article by Interesting Engineering, ...

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 ...

The Trump administration realizes it made a mistake with its immigration raid on a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. However, that the raid even happened is among the mountain of evidence undermining ...

Based on multi-year data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the finding reveals a dynamic and unstable region just outside M87*’s event horizon. While the black hole’s shadow has remained ...

The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding ...

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