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Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...
In “The North Pole” Erling Kagge, a Norwegian explorer, recounts the long history of human expeditions to the end of the Earth. It starts with Pytheas, a Greek astronomer, who sailed far ...
Polaris will continue to be the pole star for a few thousand years to come, until Earth's rotational axis wanders inexorably away on its 26,000-year wobble. 2 - Thuban ...
Unlike the geographic North Pole, which remains fixed, magnetic north is shaped by the chaotic flow of molten iron within Earth’s outer core.
The magnetic North Pole is a point through which Earth's magnetic field converges and it continues changing according to the planet's change in its molten core.
Earth's magnetic north pole is moving, scientists just updated its new location Scientists have monitored the magnetic north pole for centuries. The World Magnetic Model (WMM) predicts its future ...
The magnetic north pole, distinct from the geographic North Pole, is the point where Earth’s magnetic field lines converge. NASA via Rawpixel For decades, Earth’s magnetic north pole has been ...
Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on Earth.
British scientists have recently revealed that Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting towards Russia at an accelerated speed and is now closer to Siberia than it was five years ago.