Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

The increase and decrease in levels of the magnetic field and oxygen were parallel across ages, which might help narrow down ...

When the magnetic field around the Earth grows stronger, oxygen levels rise. That is the surprising finding of a new study looking at more than half a billion years of planetary history.

A weaker magnetic field could account for the higher levels of oxygen recorded in the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans around that time — and for the ensuing proliferation of macroscopic marine ...

A bizarre drop in the strength of the magnetic field has been found to have occurred between 591 and 565 million years ago, which coincides with a major increase in the oxygen levels in Earth's ...

New research suggests that the largest magnetic fields in the universe originated through some exotic mechanism that ...

The researchers believe that a weak magnetic field may have led to an increase in oxygen in the atmosphere, allowing early complex life to evolve. The intensity of Earth’s magnetic field is ...

oxygen-breathing multicellular organisms. The wave of evolution just as the magnetic field weakened is “so striking that we felt this could not just be a coincidence,” said John Tarduno ...

the really weak magnetic field may have helped accelerate evolution.” Previously, the scientific consensus held that photosynthesizing organisms like cyanobacteria created the surplus of oxygen ...