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Scientific Evidence that Geomagnetic Storms Are Making You Sick

Geomagnetic storms aren’t just beautiful to look at — these disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field could also be messing with your mind and body. There’s a ton of evidence suggesting that geomagnetic storms can cause everything from depression to cardiac problems — and may even be influencing the stock market.

A new paper suggests there’s a lot more evidence for this connection than anybody realizes. We talked to the paper’s author, and here’s what he told us.

Top image: Francis Anderson on Flickr.

The paper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, argues that there’s a large, disparate, and controversial body of scientific literature that links geomagnetic storms to a number of animal behaviors, including cardiovascular, psychiatric and behavioral changes in humans. And author Dr. James Close has the enormous literature review to back up his claims.

Close, a researcher with Isis Green, tells io9 that he stumbled into the topic of geomagnetic storms and human behavior, when he read a paper published by the Atlanta Federal Reserve (PDF) entitled “Playing the Field: Geomagnetic Storms and the Stock Market.”

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