Magnetic Shield Corporation manufactures and distributes magnetic shielding alloys available in a variety of sheets and coils. Magnetic Shield also custom fabricates to customer specifications. A lab ...

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...

What if Earth’s magnetic field disappeared tomorrow? Explore the catastrophic effects on life, technology, and the planet’s atmosphere, including increased radiation, satellite failures ...

This type of magnetic field is known as a geodynamo, and the force field structure that deflects most of the solar wind and forms a protective shield is called the magnetosphere. To understand how ...

When I learned recently that our planet's magnetic shield is rapidly weakening and may be ready to reverse its polarity, causing compasses to point south, I immediately wondered what that would ...

As the time line at right shows, hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north ...