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Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...
Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nilakshi Veerabathina, University of Texas at Arlington (THE CONVERSATION) ...
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The sudden stop would create enormous stresses in Earth’s crust, triggering earthquakes of unprecedented magnitude everywhere simultaneously. The tectonic plates would shift violently, and the ground ...