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 ...

It's tempting to give The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie the benefit of the doubt simply because the movie is one of the victims of the artistically destructive policies of Warner Bros.

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 ...