Life's Little Mysteries Earth Archives
Weird Weather: One Strange Quiz
July 11, 2012, LiveScience Staff
Prove how much you known about weather oddities.
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Do Sunrises Look Different from Sunsets?
July 10, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
If you woke up out of a coma just as the sun sat perched on the horizon, would you know dawn from dusk?
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Sun Turns NYC into 'Manhattanhenge' Thursday
July 10, 2012, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
Thursday (July 12) is one of the two days that the setting sun aligns with Manhattan's streets, offering a breathtaking view.
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Why Does a Breeze Feel Cool?
July 09, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
When jiggling is what makes air molecules hot, why does air in motion feel cold?
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Earth Quiz: Mysteries of the Blue Marble
July 04, 2012, Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
What do you know about your home planet?
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Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?
July 02, 2012, SPACE.com Staff
Find out if you're well grounding in basic facts.
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How Bad Are the Colorado Wildfires?
June 29, 2012, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
Waldo Canyon is the most destructive fire in Colorado state history, but the U.S. as a whole has seen far worse.
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What Would Happen If You Fell Into a Volcano?
June 26, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
If you fell into a volcano, an experiment shows you might sink after all.
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Gallery of the Craziest Clouds
June 22, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
We've all seen some bizarre clouds in our day. But these are a few of the best that the Internet has to offer.
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What's the Difference Between a Fruit and a Vegetable?
June 12, 2012, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
Legally, a tomato is a vegetable.
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Pop Quiz: Sign of Climate Change, or Just Weird Weather?
June 07, 2012, LiveScience Staff
How well do you understand weather and our climate and the difference between them?
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What's the Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes?
June 06, 2012, Michelle Bryner, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
You may think you've had yams, but you probably haven't.
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What If the Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupts?
June 01, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Would a supereruption be the end of us all, or just a big blow to the tourism industry in Wyoming?
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Spectacular Texas Thundercloud Caught on Video
May 31, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
A huge supercell in West Texas was caught on camera.
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What If the World Stopped Turning?
May 25, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
If the world stopped spinning, a few scattered groups of hardy humans could survive.
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Saturday's 'Supermoon' Won't Destroy Earth
May 02, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Have no fear of the supermoon this Saturday. Earth can handle its slightly-stronger-than-normal gravitational pull.
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How to Find a Meteorite in 5 Steps
May 01, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Finding a specimen from space takes hard work and dedication, but these steps will get you looking in the right direction.
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What If the Sky Fell?
April 27, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Conditions are pretty grim on an Earth with no atmosphere.
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Is the Salton Sea Drying Up?
April 27, 2012, Robert Roy Britt, Editor in Chief
There's something very unnatural about this sea.
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Apocalypse Soon: What Would You Do If Earth Were Doomed?
April 13, 2012, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
If a huge asteroid were headed for Earth and we all had one month left to live, how would you react?
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What If There Were No Seasons?
March 09, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Humans would have trouble getting a foothold on an Earth without seasons.
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How Does Sea Foam Form?
March 09, 2012, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
That weird puffy stuff washed ashore is probably perfectly natural.
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Why Do We Need Leap Days?
February 29, 2012, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
Leap days are necessary to keep the Gregorian calendar synced up to actual astronomical measures of the passage of time.
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Radioactive Rain Across the US Is Natural
February 23, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
YouTube is flooded with videos of people detecting high levels of radioactivity shortly after rainfall. But as it turns out, this radiation comes from a natural source.
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What If Earth's Magnetic Poles Flip?
February 10, 2012, by Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
What will happen if or when the direction of Earth's magnetic field reverses, so that compasses point south?
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