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Ancient Inscribed Bricks Contain Evidence of Mysterious Magnetic ‘Anomaly,’ Scientists Find

12.18.23

By Mirjam Guesgen
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Scientists Discover Vast, Mysterious ‘Waves’ Deep Inside the Earth

05.27.22

By Jordan Pearson
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Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields Like the Human Brain

03.19.21

By Thobey Campion
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why the Northern and Southern Lights Don’t Match

01.29.19

By Becky Ferreira
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Almost Collapsed 565 Million Years Ago

01.28.19

By Becky Ferreira
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Scientists Can’t Fix Map of Earth’s Magnetic Field Thanks to the Government Shutdown

01.10.19

By Sarah Emerson
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Scientists Think an Exploding Star Helped Kill Off the Megalodon

12.12.18

By Becky Ferreira
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Humanity’s Next Mission to Mercury Will Test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

10.19.18

By Becky Ferreira
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The Light of a Quasar Revealed This Distant Galaxy’s Magnetic Field

08.28.17

By Jacob Dubé
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This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies

03.21.17

By Becky Ferreira
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The Nine Space Gadgets NASA’s Juno Orbiter Is Using to Study Jupiter

07.05.16

By Becky Ferreira
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ESA’s Swarm Mission Is Mapping How the Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Changing

05.15.16

By Amy Thompson

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