James Stewart

The authors of the 2023 study noticed that 70-year oscillation coincides with fluctuations in the length of a day and changes in the magnetic field.

And beyond that, they even linked them to changes in global mean temperature and sea level.

But before you're too alarmed, we're talking about tiny changes here.

A thousandth of a second here.

A fraction of a degree there.

Certainly not enough to explain global warming.

The long story short is it's early days.

Scientists are continuing to study the inner core and its impacts on the world above.

And with every passing year yielding more and more seismic data ripe for analysis, new insights are only a matter of time.

Perhaps Inge Lehmann put it best.

A few years before her death, at the ripe old age of 104, she wrote, The first results for the properties of the inner core were naturally approximate.

Much has been written about it, but the last word has probably not yet been said.

Let me know in the comments what you think of this.

Is this something to worry about?

How do you think this will affect life on Earth, if at all?

It appears that when it comes to the deepest, darkest secrets our planet holds, we really are still only scraping the surface.

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the most dangerous of them all? Well, the answer might be looking right back at you. The idea of mirror life might sound like something from a science fiction novel, but it's a very real possibility that could spell disaster for life as we know it. Imagine an organism that was almost like us, but not quite.

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the most dangerous of them all? Well, the answer might be looking right back at you. The idea of mirror life might sound like something from a science fiction novel, but it's a very real possibility that could spell disaster for life as we know it. Imagine an organism that was almost like us, but not quite.

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the most dangerous of them all? Well, the answer might be looking right back at you. The idea of mirror life might sound like something from a science fiction novel, but it's a very real possibility that could spell disaster for life as we know it. Imagine an organism that was almost like us, but not quite.

The perfect mirror image, right down to its DNA, proteins and sugars. Wie würde das aussehen? Und was wären die Folgen, wenn es in Existenz kommen würde? Ein Gruppe von 38 Wissenschaftlern hat über diese Fragen nachgedacht und hat letztlich einen 299-Page-Report über die Fähigkeit und die Risiken von Mirabakterien veröffentlicht. Seine Antwort? Geht nicht da hin!