magnetic fields

How a Faint Magnetic Pulse May Have Jumpstarted Evolution 600 Million Years Ago

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Research suggests that the unusual state of Earth’s magnetic field during the Ediacaran Period could have significantly influenced the development ...

Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field Uncovered in Greenland

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An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded iron formation that is found in the northeastern part of the ...

Star explosions boost deep space cosmic rays to near the speed of light

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A new X-ray telescope showed how star explosion shockwaves align powerful magnetic fields able to accelerate atom fragments close to ...

‘Bones’ of cosmic hand revealed in creepy NASA X-ray telescope views (video, photo)

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NASA’s newest X-ray space telescope has captured a ghostly view of a stellar explosion whose remains resemble a skeleton hand ...

NASA missions spy a ghostly hand and creepy face in the cosmos

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Chinese scientists’ new map of the Milky Way turns the tables on cosmic radiation theories

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Kazumasa Kawata, of the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research in Kashiwa, Japan, said the findings would “give ...