Between 50 and 1,000 kilometers above our heads is the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere consisting of charged particles: ions (atoms that have gained or lost a negatively charged ...

The curious minds at What If explore the catastrophic impact if Earth's core were to suddenly stop spinning.

A balloon-borne experiment over Antarctica, designed to detect cosmic radio waves, has instead picked up bizarre signals that appear to be coming from deep within the ice. These signals challenge our ...

As a glaciologist who thinks about ice a lot, rewatching the movie Frozen umpteen times with my six-year-old daughter ...

TU Wien researchers created a quantum ring clock that achieves exponential accuracy gains with minimal energy use.

Earth sent out a series of mysterious seismic signals that lasted for nine days, leaving scientists puzzled. These signals, ...

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Using next-generation technology could offer fresh insight into unprecedented ocean extremes driven by climate change or ...

The frequency of the free oscillation is determined by the mass of the object and the gradient of the ultrasonic radiation force. Using this phenomenon, in this report, we tried to measure the mass of ...

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President Donald Trump's trade war with China underscores the importance of a reliable supply chain for the automotive industry of rare-earth minerals and magnets made from them that are necessary ...