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How, over the course of billions of years, has the interior of the Earth remained as hot as the Sun’s surface?
Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another.
Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes...
Mud volcanoes—what are they?
Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing...
Evidence from millennia of Atlantic storms is being decoded from ancient hurricanes’ footprints on the ocean floor, and it is not good news for...
If you look back at the history of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s, it might seem hurricane frequency is on the rise.
The year...
Over the past 2.5 billion years, our moon has been gradually moving away from Earth.
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know...
