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Several things affect Earth’s spinning speed. The Moon is one of them. When it’s far from Earth’s equator, our planet spins a ...
The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.
Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, starting Wednesday, July 9.
Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...
Research on the ISS helped scientists tackle problems we can’t solve on Earth, from human biology to fire behavior and ...
Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit ...
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over Earth's mantle.
Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...
What did the snowball Earth look like? Entire continents, even in the tropics, seem to have been under sheets of ice.