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Are people at the South Pole upside down?
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.
The birth of a solar system revealed by planet 'pebbles'
A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...
THIS is what Earth sounded like when North Pole became South Pole: Scientists turn ancient chaos into eerie sound
Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...
Mercury's 'missing' meteorites may have finally been found on Earth
Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...
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Huge cost of my trip, what I saw – First Nigerian in space, Owolabi Salis
First Nigerian man to journey into space, Owolabi Salis, tells FEMI ADEDIRAN about his extraordinary voyage and deeper ...
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What's It Like to Drive to the North Pole and Back?
He was recently part of a 12-person team that was the first to ever drive wheeled vehicles to the North Pole as part of a ...
He’s searching for a human-made problem in areas largely untouched by humans. Answers are just emerging
Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...
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The polar vortex is coming—and raising the odds for intense winter weather - National Geographic
The mass of extremely warm air threw the freezing polar vortex out of balance, shoving it off its North Pole axis so forcefully that it in effect split in two, as if growing a pair of legs: one ...