Magnetic reconnection is the process whereby magnetic field lines from different magnetic domains are spliced to one another, changing their patterns of connectivity with respect to the sources. It...

It has been proposed recently that a description of the magnetosphere as a system in a state of self-organized criticality would be fruitful for understanding ~and predicting! the global response ...

Below: Proposed model showing inertial Alfven resonance cones excited by magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotail [from P. Bellan, Geophys. Res. Letters, 23,1717(1996)]. An investigation of...

During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 9...

The Cluster spacecraft have been used to investigate auroral electric elds and eld-aligned currents (FACs) at geocentric distances between 4 and 7 RE. The electric elds have been measured by t...