You have got to check out this story from NPR: The compass has been around since at least the 12th century, but scientists still don't know exactly how the Earth generates the magnetic field that keeps a compass needle pointing...
Posted on June 2, 2008 11:30 AM • 13 Comments •
I saw this press release and for one brief happy instant I thought it might be about the band Scorpions and their hit Winds of Change. Sadly, it was just about wind direction changing over the last 30,000 years. Boo....
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Posted on January 23, 2007 10:56 AM • 0 Comments •
Geologists are using computer models to speculate where the continents are going to go in the next 100 million years. Their conclusion: the continents may again rejoin into a new Pangea -- Pangea Ultima: Today, some of his most ambitious...
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Posted on January 10, 2007 12:02 PM • 2 Comments •