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Newly Discovered Asteroid Passes Close to Earth
A small asteroid flew very close to Earth on Thursday night, less than a week after astronomers discovered the object. The asteroid, named 2023 BU, was scheduled to pass over…
A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, But More Complex
Another orbit around the sun and here we are again: back where we started but spun about — changed, perhaps deranged. Henry Segerman, a British American mathematician and mathematical artist…
A Cathedral Tried to Approach Heaven, but the Earth Held a Deep Secret
Today, Mr. Patterson said, the sub-crypt flooding is much reduced. Why? His theory centers on the rise of Enclave — a 430-unit rental complex that runs the length of West…
With Mauna Loa’s Eruption, a Rare Glimpse Into the Earth
In 1963, a geophysicist named John Tuzo Wilson proposed that the islands, which are covered with layers of volcanic stone, sit above a magma plume, which forms when rock from…
Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’?
The day of my record attempt, Orfield crossed the room’s threshold, and his voice immediately sounded far away, as the wedges absorbed his sound waves. After I followed him inside,…
Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None.
“It was very nice news for me that this kind of group existed, because one usually, with this kind of philosophy, feels alone,” said Mario Buenfil, 73, a water engineer…
James Lovelock, Whose Gaia Theory Saw the Earth as Alive, Dies at 103
James Lovelock, the maverick British ecologist whose work was essential to today’s understanding of man-made pollutants and their effect on climate and who captured the scientific world’s imagination with his…
Shards of the Planet Mercury May Be Hiding on Earth
Mercury does not make sense. It is a bizarre hunk of rock with a composition that is unlike its neighboring rocky planets. “It’s way too dense,” said David Rothery, a…