This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...

Now, as the moon moves towards the Earth’s poles and away from its equator, the spinning speed is expected to increase further. Keeping this in mind, it has been observed that July 9, July 22, and ...

In this paper, the effects of end-winding on electromagnetic performance of surface mounted permanent magnet machines (SPMMs) (including vernier machines) with different slot/pole number combinations ...

The antenna for the GOES-East weather satellite is nothing if not huge, as it communicates with a satellite close to 23,500 ...

You may think you know your color wheel, but the stories behind these rare colors around the world just might blow your mind.

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

This estimate is then used to initialise weather forecasts. Observations are an essential ingredient in this process, anchoring our models to reality and helping to correct any deviations.  Every six ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...