you don t mind, brian. brian: not at all. but you have to sublet from us. you just can t come waltzing in here and take over a studio. there is nothing free. we are going to take your currency. it s going to be mayhem. you brace yourselves. [laughter] steve: hurricane piers morgan heading our way. thank you very much. we are handing it over to ashley for some headlines. good morning. starting with this, the fbi and police in georgia are frantically searching for a missing toddler. 20-month-old quentin simon was reported missing last week after his mom said he vanished from his playpen at home. officials are working 18 hour days and using k-9 teams, drone helicopters, and heat detecting technology to find him. police say they have not yet found anything to suggest he was kidnapped. a15-year-old in florida is now facing a battery charge after he body slammed a school resource officer. police calling the attack despicable after the officer was slain been trying to break up a
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Radiocarbon from a 42,000-year-old kauri tree in New Zealand helped unravel Earth’s last magnetic upheaval. JONATHAN PALMER
Ancient kauri trees capture last collapse of Earth’s magnetic field
Feb. 18, 2021 , 2:00 PM
Several years ago, workers breaking ground for a power plant in New Zealand unearthed a record of a lost time: a 60-ton trunk from a kauri tree, the largest tree species in New Zealand. The tree, which grew 42,000 years ago, was preserved in a bog and its rings spanned 1700 years, capturing a tumultuous time when the world was turned upside down at least magnetically speaking.
Radiocarbon levels in this and several other pieces of wood chart a surge in radiation from space, as Earth’s protective magnetic field weakened and its poles flipped, a team of scientists reports today in