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Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 190 years and is likely a different spot from the one observed by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, a new study reports. The ...

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Earth’s magnetic shield may not have the safety limit scientists once thought it did. New research suggests that the most powerful solar storms could disturb the planet’s upper atmosphere up to twice ...

Variations in solar output on timescales from days to centuries exert a measurable influence on Earth’s climate system through changes in radiative forcing, atmospheric chemistry and circulation. The ...

Researchers collect sea-ice cores at the biogeochemical coring site during the scientific handover between Leg 1 and Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate ...

The latest Super El Nino forecast warns of intensifying oceanic warming pattern in the equatorial Pacific, threatening to ...

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A Spanish startup called Vortex Bladeless has spent ten years building a wind generator that looks like a shaking pole — and the physics behind it is the same force that destroyed one of history's ...