Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

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Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...

If life can thrive and survive under the ice in Antarctica, it might also be possible it can thrive in extraterrestrial environments too' ...

Earth's rotation is speeding up, resulting in shorter days. July 10, 2025, saw the shortest day. Upcoming days are also ...

Submarine canyons are among the most spectacular and fascinating geological formations to be found on our ocean floors, but ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists conducted lab experiments to address a mystery about the origins of frozen ...