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Earth’s Core Has Stopped and May Be Reversing Direction, Study Says
The surprising finding might solve longstanding mysteries about climate and geological phenomena.
A Mind-Blowing Experiment Just Showed How Life's Ingredients Formed in Outer Space
Life's origins may lie in outer space, and a lab experiment just confirmed how it could happen.
The Pacific Ocean Is Shrinking and Will Form a New Supercontinent, Scientists Say
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking by about an inch every year, and supercomputer simulations predict a new supercontinent called "Amasia" will form.
Scientists Made a Breakthrough on Life’s Origin and It Could Change Everything
A new study shows that ingredients for life can form from non-living chemicals on any given beach, and it could help develop new drugs and search for alien life.
Ultra-Rare Diamond Reveals Secrets of Oceans of Water Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say
More water than all of Earth's oceans is thought to reside deep inside the mantle, and a newly-discovered gem just shed more light on the mystery.
The Guy Who Memorized Google Maps Says You Can Too
Trevor Rainbolt, the “GeoGuessr guy,” explains how he learned to locate any Google Maps image with astonishing speed and accuracy
Asteroids Could Truly be Responsible for Forming Earth's Continents, Study Finds
The Australian study is the first of its kind to find physical evidence that asteroids shaped the Earth's surface.
Earth Just Mysteriously Spun Faster, Causing Shortest Day Ever Recorded
June 29 clocked in at 1.59 milliseconds short of 24 hours due to a strange speed-up of Earth's rotation.
An Unprecedented Number of Minerals Found on Earth Sheds Light on Alien Life
Scientists identified more than 10,500 kinds of minerals, nearly double the previous tally, in twin studies that have implications in the search for extraterrestrial life.
‘Super-Earths’ Could Host Alien Life for 84 Billion Years, Study Finds
Life on a rogue Super-Earth would be difficult, but organisms have been shown to thrive even in very extreme conditions on regular Earth.
Scientists Discover Vast, Mysterious 'Waves' Deep Inside the Earth
The Earth's core and the life-preserving magnetic field it generates are mysterious, and it just got weirder with a fascinating new discovery.