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Changing views on the age of planet Earth

Changing views on the age of planet Earth

We currently believe the age to be about 4.5bn years

Thu Aug 19 2021 - 01:00

Call for greater recognition of George Stokes’s contribution to science

Call for greater recognition of George Stokes’s contribution to science

‘Powerful and unerring’ mathematician born in Skreen, Co Sligo, 200 years ago

Tue Aug 13 2019 - 02:55

Will the Earth’s poles soon switch? And what would it mean?

Will the Earth’s poles soon switch? And what would it mean?

The poles switch every few hundred thousand years. Opinion is split on the significance of this

Sun Jul 07 2019 - 14:43

That’s Maths: tides are a tug-of-war between Earth, moon and sun

That’s Maths: tides are a tug-of-war between Earth, moon and sun

Software packages (and apps) now analyse tidal records and use the results to make predictions

Thu Aug 02 2018 - 01:00

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