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An all-improved, compact star tracker within an affordable price bracket. The iOptron SkyTracker Pro's new and improved polar ...

A routine magnet fishing operation yielded a full casino safe submerged underwater. We detail the safe’s extraction, ...

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

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Northern Michigan is one of the United States' most stunning summer enclaves. It's also home to some legendary (and ...

North Charleston Academic Magnet High School students win first at international NASA contest aimed to research growing crops ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.