As well as a few temporary reversals, the Earth's magnetic field – just like the Sun – can flip over long timescales. During the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, the magnetic north could have been ...

A study by geophysicists from UC Berkeley and their Italian and French colleagues has shed new light on Earth's last major magnetic reversal. Occurring 786,000 years ago, the flip happened ...

As Ron Merrill, a magnetic-field specialist at the University of Washington remarked when asked whether we're in for a reversal: "Ask me in 10,000 years, I'll give you a better answer." ...

In 1966, earth scientists first identified the Jaramillo Event, the wholesale reversal of ... They realized that the pattern of reversals matched perfectly the magnetic profile they had compiled ...