Earths

Gopika Varma will be performing Mohiniyattam at the 2023 edition of Feet on Earth festival, to be held in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives How can a ‘part’ be representative of…

A long-ago reshuffling of the giant planets in our solar system may have been instrumental in giving Earth its moon. For decades, planetary scientists have hypothesized that…

Microtektites found in Caribbean may shed light on tektite origin — Science News, August 11, 1973 Though their origin remains a mystery to scientists, huge strewn fields of…

A dense rainforest or other verdant terrestrial vegetation may be what first comes to mind at the mention of photosynthesis. Yet the clouds of phytoplankton that fill the oceans are the…

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At the center the Earth is a solid metal ball, a kind of "planet within a planet," whose existence makes life on the surface possible, at least as we know it. How Earth's inner core formed,…

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Magnetotactic bacteria, which can align with the Earth's magnetic field, have been discovered in a new location. Previously observed on land and in shallow water, analysis of a hydrothermal…

Lacking bones, brains, and even a complete gut, the body plans of simple animals like sea anemones appear to have little in common with humans and their vertebrate kin. Nevertheless, new…

By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and…