Earth’s powerful magnetic field shields life on the planet from the severe cosmic radiation as we know it. This is what sets our blue world apart from Venus and Mars. However, the Earth’s ...
Researchers examined ancient plagioclase crystals to learn about Earth's history. A new study has discovered a startling record in which the Earth’s magnetic field diminished for up to 26 million ...
The planet's magnetic field may have collapsed around 600 million years ago, enabling a major oxygenation event and perhaps supercharging evolution. A near collapse of Earth's magnetic field may ...
Earth’s magnetic field protects life from harmful cosmic radiation. But sometime between about 590 million and 565 million years ago, that security blanket seems to have been much thinner ...
A new study suggests more solar radiation reached Earth while the magnetic field weakened, leading to a rise in oxygen that drove an explosion of multicellular organisms during the Ediacaran ...
A near collapse of Earth's magnetic field may have paved the way for life to evolve past the microscopic stage. New research on ancient rocks from South Africa and Brazil suggests that Earth's ...
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Fossil impression of Dickinsonia, an example of Ediacaran fauna, found in present-day Australia. Credit: Shuhai Xiao/Virginia Tech. Millions of years ago, during a period called the Ediacaran ...
Sometimes it seems that the real division between people has nothing to do with talent, wealth or beauty. For some people, life’s hard, and for some it’s easy; there’s not much logic attached to the ...
A £13 million Wiltshire mansion where Nancy Mitford and Siegfried Sassoon once partied with 'the brightest of the Bright Young Things' After Wilford Manor's glory days in the 1920s it became a ...
Rescue teams in South Africa forged ahead Monday with efforts to find any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed. Their hopes ...