--> A team led by Jacques Laskar from the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE) and the Paris Observatory has released new computational results for the long-term ...
Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week’s question comes from Emily in Washington, DC. Crawford Lake in Milton, Ontario. The answer to ...
Geological time, generally considered as a system of eras, periods and epochs materialized in rock strata, might actually follow a simple and unifying model. Indeed, a new study led by physicist Shaun ...
Every half-million years or so, for unknown reasons, the earth’s magnetic field suddenly flips. Within a period of 10,000 years—a mere instant on the geological time scale—the north and south magnetic ...