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Earth is a wonderful place still, and that’s possible thanks to a lot of things going just right. One of the most important such things is the planet’s magnetic field, an invisible force that keeps us ...
About 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field briefly flipped in what is known as the Laschamp event. Now, a group of scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm mission have ...
One of the reasons that Earth is able to support life is an important property of the planet we can't usually see: its magnetic field. This field protects the planet from harmful space radiation as ...
Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds. The "audio represents the magnetic field generated by Earth's core and a ...
Different frequencies sound different to us. For instance, when you hum deeply, that’s about 200 Hz. The metallic sound of a ...
About 41,000 years ago, the Earth’s magnetic field suddenly flipped. Positive became negative, and negative became positive. Using data from the European Space Agency, geoscientists have now created a ...
The Earth's magnetic field is essential to life as we know it. But it’s something we can never see – or hear, until now. In a recent study released on Oct. 10 by the European Space Agency, researchers ...
The magnetic field that surrounds Earth can’t normally be seen or heard — but scientists at the Technical University of Denmark, working with the European Space Agency, have taken magnetic signals ...
Detail view of Wendy Smith's cover art for Distant Plastic Trees, The Magnetic Fields' debut album, on which the song "100,000 Fireflies" was released in 1991. It starts with the kind of lyric you ...
Sound waves escaping the sun’s interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun’s atmosphere which appears as a ruby red “ring of fire” around the moon during a total ...