On a long flight recently, I was too tired to watch anything heady, so for the hell of it, I watched the recent Looney Tunes movie The Day the Earth Blew Up out of curiosity, and I figured it was all ...

Cartoon cross section of the Earth showing the mantle, outer core and inner core. Convection in the outer core produces Earth's geomagnetic field. The properties of Earth’s iron-rich core are key to ...

I love watching cartoons from my youth, and I was pumped to see that Warner Bros was releasing The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie in theaters. One of the things that gets me most into ...

Cartoon of the Earth with cutaway showing the mantle and inner and outer core. Magnetic field lines produced by the geodynamo extend into space and interact with the solar wind. The iron-rich core at ...