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As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...
Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.
Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...