Tag: Nature (journal)

  • Photo of the Day

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    Periodic wobbles in Earth’s core change the length of a day every 5.9 years, according to a study published today (July 10) in the journal Nature. Teasing out this subtle cycle, which subtracts and adds mere milliseconds to each day, also revealed a match between abrupt changes in the length of day and Earth’s magnetic field.…

  • How does world’s oldest water taste? ‘Terrible.’

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    Earth Science Professor, Barbara Sherwood Lollar describes the oldest water ever discovered ( possibly as old as 2.6 billion years, when Earth was less than half its current age) in a recent interview with Deborah Netburn of the Los Angeles Times: “What jumps out at you first is the saltiness. Because of the reactions between the water and the…