Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 22, 2024, 01:51pm EDT Sep 27, 2024, 12:28am EDT Reconstructed ...

Alfred Wilson-Spencer receives funding from NERC grants NE/T000228/1 and NE/V010867/1. Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth’s inner core — a solid ball of iron and ...

Google Earth VR was an early and enchanting app for the first generation of modern PC VR headsets, but unfortunately it never made the leap to the standalone era. Now a new app, FLY, brings the magic ...

The reason for this update is the barycenter. Our early conceptions of planets orbiting perfectly around the Sun might need to be slightly revised. While the Sun is unquestionably dominant in our ...

Tim and Moby are getting up there. But according to Brainpop Chief Product Officer Jay Chakrapani, they aren’t slowing down. I had the chance to discuss the latest and greatest with one of edtech’s OG ...

Are you looking for a fun and exciting way to get your kids interested in science? Or do you have kids at home who need an educational yet entertaining activity? Look no further! In this blog post, I ...

Google Earth combines satellite imagery and aerial photography to create a rich picture of earth. You can use Google Earth online, on your smartphone or tablet, or on its desktop app — all for free.

Earth's changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers ...

Here’s a trick question: How many moons does Earth have? And to be clear, I mean natural satellites, not human-made ones. I remind you, this is a trick question. The answer is one—the moon. See?

Earth formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, and for several hundred million years the planet’s surface was almost certainly too hot and heavily bombarded by comets and asteroids to be hospitable to ...

Every so often, Earth's magnetic poles completely flip. What causes this to happen? And how do these reversals affect life on Earth? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...