Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps ...
Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.
Around 1952, the Millers decided to put down permanent roots and set up a trading post outside Fairbanks, near the Davis homestead in what would be called North Pole. One day, a child who had seen ...