Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one ...
China's Three Gorges Dam has effectively changed Earth's axis by nearly an inch since it was built nearly 18 years ago, ...
Scientists are also investigating changes in the rotation of the Earth's inner core. They suspect that couplings with the Earth's mantle could contribute to ...
Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...
Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.
Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...
"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...
For a long time, scientists assumed that the Earth’s inner core had a stable, even, and constant rotation below the Earth’s crust. However, with the help of seismic analyses (i.e., studies of ...
A 250-day experiment using a ring laser achieved unprecedented accuracy in measuring Earth's axial wobble (nutation and precession), surpassing previous gyroscope and ring laser technologies by a ...
Long ago, the Moon was much nearer Earth. Scientists believe a protoplanet collision created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago. Fossil clam shells show shorter Earth days in ancient times.
Hotel Barcelona is a side-scrolling roguelike slasher about a US field marshal possessed by the soul of a serial killer, ...