NASA’s decades-long watch on near-Earth space has revealed a landscape that is far more dynamic, and far more intricate, than early asteroid hunters imagined. Instead of a simple backdrop of rocks ...

To paraphrase a popular saying, nothing in this world is certain except that socks disappear in the laundry and taxes. It's why we bring an umbrella even when the highest-paid weatherman predicts blue ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...

Our world has no shortage of wonders and mysteries—but is it really all that surprising? We somehow managed to make Bluetooth and Wi-Fi work on a planet that’s essentially made of sticks and rocks.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking ...

Wandering magnetic fields would have had noticeable effects for humans. Maximilian Schanner (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) When we first got together, we wondered whether our ...