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Professor John Chiang of UC Berkeley explains the impact of Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity on global climate. He ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now.

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Often described as ‘a man for all seasons’, Mohsin Naqvi landed in Washington in the midst of a transition of power in that country. He was certainly not among the few foreign dignitaries who ...

Ranking the 40 greatest individual seasons in MLB since 1940 is no easy endeavor. But MLB Network did just that, revealing its top 40 seasons on Sunday night. To say the list is impressive is an ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...