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Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a key indicator ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

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About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

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The team found that the North Pole wandered over Europe when the magnetic field's poles started to flip positions, a natural process that has happened ... because of their extremely high temperatures, ...