Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New satellite data and advanced simulations show that the morning side of the ...

For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption ...

Could decades of magnetospheric theory have been looking at Earth’s electric heart the wrong way around? The answer, in new ...

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Positive charges distributed in the air are concentrated near the conventional air-termination, so positive polarity lightning of the same polarity avoids the positive charges and possibly strike the ...