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The planet beneath your feet is hurtling through space at over 1,600 kmph. So why does everything feel perfectly still? This new series from India Today Science explores the why and how behind ...

Here’s a reminder: We’re not the center of the Universe. As species, as members of this planet, this solar system or even the Milky Way galaxy. We are just a speck twisting in interstellar dust. Which ...

You’ve probably seen a Foucault pendulum in a museum. This Victorian-era science demonstration is named after physicist Léon ...

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Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it one of the shortest days of 2025 at 86,399.99867 seconds long. How that happens, and how we can ...