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Jun 01, 2021
What if the speed of Earth’s rotation suddenly got faster?
Even a 1 mile per hour speed boost would make things pretty weird.
Feb 14, 2020
No matter how badly you want an asteroid to hit Earth, it’s not happening this weekend
Rumors of our impending death have been greatly exaggerated.
Feb 11, 2020
Coronavirus shows our health agencies are ill prepared for fake news
Disinformation spreads even faster than disease—and it can be just as deadly.
Jan 23, 2020
The Doomsday Clock is now closer to midnight than ever before
Just 100 seconds to midnight.
Mar 07, 2019
Asteroids deal with breakups better than we thought
There go our hopes of nuking an apocalyptic asteroid.
Jan 08, 2019
The Milky Way could crash into another galaxy way sooner than we thought
The Large Magellanic Cloud isn’t just a pretty satellite galaxy—it’s also a future threat.
Oct 15, 2018
The terrifying new climate change report has one silver lining
There is still time to push for a better future.
May 02, 2018
Yes, Earth’s magnetic poles can flip. But they probably won’t anytime soon.
But they might wobble.
