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Scientists discover strong, unexpected link between Earth’s magnetic field and oxygen levels

Earth’s magnetic field and oxygen levels are inextricably linked, new research suggests. The strength of the geomagnetic field has gone…

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‘Uranus is weird.’ Big moons of tilted ice giant hide a magnetic mystery, Hubble telescope reveals

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus’ largest moons are gathering dust — literally. Uranus, the seventh…

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spots powerful magnetic explosion aimed at the sun’s surface

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion…

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Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic ‘curtains’ on the sun’s surface

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the summit of Haleakalā on the island of…

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Magnetic fields are old as the universe, but what created them?

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren’t exactly sure where these magnetic…

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The moon doesn’t have a magnetic field, so why does it have magnetic rocks?

For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why some rocks on the moon are strongly magnetized even though the…

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Our galaxy’s swirling gases and magnetic lines create cosmic artwork in new simulation

In between all the stars in our galaxy, there is a vast, diffuse mix of gas and dust known as…

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150,000-year history of Earth’s magnetic field reveals clues about the climate when early humans were spreading out of Africa

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth’s magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of…

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Quantum ‘miracle material’ can store information in a single dimension thanks to newly discovered magnetic switching

Scientists have discovered how to use a quantum material to tap into the power of magnetism to store quantum information…

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Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter’s magnetic field ‘like a giant squash ball’

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter’s magnetosphere “like a giant squash ball,” a new study reports. The discovery…

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