Picture yourself standing at the Geographic North Pole with a compass in your hand. You'd expect that trusty needle to point ...
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Earth's Equator Defies Magnetic Polarity Rules

For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption ...
Half way? Sort of, depending on your definition. This is the historical market in Stewartstown. Credit: NH Division of Historical Resources—Courtesy This is the story about one of New Hampshire’s ...
A geomagnetic disruption caused auroras to wander for centuries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you want to be dazzled by a ...
Even though, at 69, I’m much older than the demographic for which “The Mini Page” is written, I enjoy reading it every Sunday in the Comics section. Often I learn something, and it’s also informative ...
You might be scared if you heard Earth’s North Pole and South Pole were about to flip positions. The sun is about to do the same thing, and it’s not a worry for us. The sun is a big magnetic ball of ...
“BETWEEN North Pole and Equator” might have been a less attractive, but would have been a more accurate title for this book, for Siberia and northern Norway are not as far north as the Pole, nor are ...
New results between 2009 and 2013 show that the diversity and functions of planktonic species in the global ocean change dramatically according to latitude. New results from the Tara Oceans expedition ...