News & Reviews: earth
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May 16, 2025
In just a century, humans have changed the climate to the point of affecting the way the Earth rotates. This comes after scientists recently discovered that melting ice, loss of groundwater, and rising sea levels are changing the Earth's rotational axis, thus also causing days to become longer. The findings are the result of an analysis of data collected over 120 years, which shows that the Earth's axis has shifted by around 10 metres since 1900.
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Apr 18, 2025
Among the existential questions of humanity is whether there is life in outer space other than on Earth. It is the reason why the SETI project and the Arecibo radio telescope were built decades ago. Yesterday, a group of scientists from the University of Cambridge announced the discovery of the existence of life on planets other than Earth. So, what should you know about it?
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Feb 24, 2020
From time to time, we would read news about how the Flat Earth society tried to prove that our mother Earth is flat with hilarious theories (and how they played themselves at the end). Among one of them was "Mad" Mike Hughes who unfortunately died from a crash after his homebuilt rocket encountered a problem.
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