The equator is more than just a line — it’s the engine that drives weather and climate patterns all across the globe.

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For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption has now been overturned by a discovery that shows the magnetic behavior of ...