Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

The seafloor is far thinner than the bulky landmass, and temperature from within Earth is “quenched” by the enormous volume ...

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state ...

Earth's shape is an oblate spheroid, slightly bulging at the equator due to its rotation, resulting in a significant difference in distance from the Earth's center between the equator and poles. This ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Earth’s climate is a vastly complex system on a grand scale. On a microscopic level, so is the complicated physics of atoms and molecules found within materials. The 2021 Nobel Prize in physics knits ...

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