What lies at the center of the Earth? The answer keeps changing.
A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...
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How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?
Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.' ...
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Why don’t we talk about the ozone layer anymore?
The Earth’s atmosphere has six layers. In the second layer, the stratosphere, you can find the ozone layer, which is made up of a gas called (wait for it) ozone. Ozone molecules are formed of ...
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The Ozone Layer: Our Global Sunscreen
Atmospheric physicists Paul Newman and Luke Oman built a simulation of the Earth’s atmosphere and then proceeded to strip away our protective ozone layer. Their computer model reproduced the chemistry ...
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Earth Struck By Enormous Burst Of Gamma Rays From Two Billion Light-Years Away
an enormous burst of gamma rays—labeled GRB 221009A—caused a significant disturbance in a layer of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere. The ionosphere sits from around 31 miles (50 ...
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Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on auroras
Some parts of Earth's atmosphere are studied continuously in ... The balloons also reach the lower part of the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere. The amount of data generated by ...
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Earth’s atmosphere is cleaning itself – a breakthrough discovery
Scientists have discovered that the Earth’s atmosphere is getting better at removing air pollution, including methane, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases. This new research, published in Nature ...