Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened ...

Read High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful ...

At its lowest point, the field strength fell to below 10 percent of today’s levels, leaving Earth exposed to dangerous cosmic radiation and solar winds. Usually, the magnetosphere acts as a protective ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...

High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful ...

An artist's concept of the TRACERS mission, which will help research magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s ...

Researchers introduce a process that allows machines to 'grow' physically by integrating parts from their surroundings or from other robots, demonstrating a step towards self-sustaining robot ...

Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...