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A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

Imagine crossing vast oceans, soaring across continents, or tunneling deep beneath the earth—without ever getting lost. For ...

New research reveals the Sun's Coronal Global Circulation has reversed, possibly starting a rare century-long solar cycle, ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

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Earth from Space. Image by NASA via Unsplash. Magnetic anomalies represent variations in the Earth’s magnetic field that differ from what would be expected in a uniform magnetic field. They typically ...

Deep beneath the rolling hills and plains of Missouri lies one of North America's most fascinating geological mysteries.

To track this cycle, researchers do not look just at the Sun but at space weather around the Earth. Our planet is surrounded by radiation regions known as the Van Allen belts. The magnetic field ...