But the exact reason why this causes a flip in polarity remains unknown. "That gets into the whole [solar] cycle, and wondering what that is," Stanford University solar physicist Phil Scherrer ...

The researchers were able to find a wealth of this particular type of carbon in the tree’s rings that would have been produced during the polar flip, suggesting that such an event is directly ...

Scientists have estimated that this polar flip, which can take thousands of years to complete, happens about once every million years, though the time between flips has varied greatly — from ...

Some scientists believe that the movement of the poles may be hinting at an upcoming polar flip. Earth’s poles have flipped many times in the past, and we may already be overdue for one.

This could be a sign that we're about to experience something humans have never witnessed before: a magnetic polar flip. And when this happens, it could affect much more than just your compass.