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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
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Sensing The Earth’s Wobble In Time
The main component of polar motion is the so-called Chandler wobble. Although it was already ... of the oceans around the solid parts of the Earth, its rotational inertia varies slightly with ...
Earth’s Storage of Water in Soil, Lakes and Rivers Is Dwindling. and It’s Especially Bad for Farming
New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in ...
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Earth's core moves to its beat. Chinese scientists discover wobble every 8.5 years
The inner, solid part of Earth's core behaves like a spinning top; it rotates around its axis along with the entire environment and makes cyclical movements. This occurs with regularity every 8.5 ...
Earth losing fresh water and may have hit irreversible tipping point due to climate change
Soil moisture has declined more than 2,600 gigatonnes since 2000, making a greater contribution to sea level rise than ...
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Scientists match Earth’s ice age cycles with orbital shifts
They were able to match these changes with small cyclical variations in the shape of Earth's orbit of the sun, its wobble and the angle on which its axis is tilted. “We found a predictable ...