How to Measure the Radius and Circumference of the Earth?
Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could measure the circumference and the radius of the earth right from your home? Just to be sure, you should not take the words ‘right from your home’ too...
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How Deep Can We Drill into the Earth?
When you think of the deepest hole drilled into the earth, the only thing that would pop in your mind would be the Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole. The Russian scientists drilled down the earth for...
What Is a Leap Second and How Does It Work?
To understand what a leap second is, let us explore the art of timekeeping since the advent of the concept itself. Moon was one of the first astronomical body used to measure time. We had...
The Effect of Magnetic Pole Movements on the Runways
I was on skype with my friend and out of the blue he shot me the following question: “Does the shifting of the poles have anything to do with aviation?” The first thing that popped...
