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Human-driven climate change has ‘slowed the Earth’s rotation’ and could affect how we measure time, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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The melting of polar ice due to human-driven climate change has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation – and it could affect how we measure time, according to a study. Although the disappearance of the ice has reduced the speed of the planet’s rotation, the Earth is still spinning a bit faster than it used to.…
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Doomed Peregrine moon lander to be allowed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, says Astrobotic | World News
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The spacecraft which attempted the first US moon landing in more than 50 years is to be allowed to “burn up” during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, the company behind the mission has said. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic said it had made the “difficult decision” to maintain the craft’s trajectory and was working with NASA and the space…
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HOTSAT-1: ‘World’s thermometer’ sends back first pictures of Earth’s hotspots in ‘milestone for climate monitoring’ | Science & Tech News
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A British-built “flying thermometer” has sent back its first pictures from space of hotspots on Earth. High-resolution thermal images taken by the satellite HOTSAT-1 reveal the sun-baked streets of Las Vegas, a vast oil storage complex in Oklahoma and the intense heat of the Canadian wildfires. HOTSAT-1, which has been dubbed “the world’s thermometer”, was…
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Earth’s inner core may have stopped spinning as part of seven-decade cycle, say scientists | World News
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The spinning core at the centre of Earth may have recently stopped rotating, relative to the surface, as part of a seven-decade cycle, scientists have said. A study said the inner core, which is the size of Pluto, could have stopped spinning around 2009. This could be possible because the inner core is mostly a…
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Winchcombe meteorite boosts theory regarding origins of Earth’s oceans | Science & Tech News
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A new study of a meteorite that landed in Winchcombe has bolstered a theory regarding the origins of water on Earth. Scientists have published their first detailed analysis of the carbonaceous chondrite meteor, which fell on the Gloucestershire town in February 2021. The new study, published in Science Advances, shows that carbonaceous chondrites like the…
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Earth’s ‘black hole police’ discover gravitational singularity near Milky Way | Science & Tech News
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An international team of astronomers known as the “black hole police” have discovered a dormant black hole located right next to the Milky Way. The team, including Kareem El-Badry of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics – himself nicknamed the “black hole destroyer” – is famed throughout the astronomy community for debunking new discoveries of gravitational…