Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...
The geomagnetic field is generated by fluid convection in Earth’s core. How this dynamo works is complicated, and the field that the core produces is not symmetric. This has been something of a ...
Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our planet is in fact a bit like a bar magnet. It has a north and south magnetic ...