This is Kansoku-san.Over the past five installments, we have looked at the scale of vortices, latent heat, the Coriolis force ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won't even notice. We're talking even less time than the ...

IntroductionImagine you are sitting in a chair in a quiet room. The desk, the floor, and the air all appear to be still.

Climate change is causing the ice masses in Greenland and Antarctica to melt. Water from the polar regions is flowing into the world’s oceans –and especially into the equatorial region. “This means ...

Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries CE to identify five total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean and improve the model of the Earth's rotation over ...

You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during a leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in about ...

We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In [Bertrand Selva]’s ...

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