Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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According to the news, our planet’s core has stopped spinning and will soon reverse. What’s really happening is a lot less exciting, but still pretty neat.
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Looking for worlds around other stars shows us just how weird and unusual our planet really is in the grand scheme of things.
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Determining the tallest mountains on Earth seems like a fairly straightforward task, but it actually depends on which mountains you measure and how you measure them...
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Knowing how life started right here at home can tell us how likely it is to sprout on another world.
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Apparently middle aged planets also gain mass around their equators according to an amateur geologist very passionate about his epiphany.
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Scientists issue a correction to the age of the Earth. What does this mean? Pretty much nothing...
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Jupiter may have once again saved us from an asteroid impact. But next time, it might steer one our way...
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Don't panic, but despite a thick atmosphere with a large magnetic field, the Earth is losing a lot more gasses to the solar wind than we think it should...