Perhaps the main difference if the earth were a cube would be that students would become much more frustrated trying to calculate the gravitational field.

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Suppose the moon was a cube instead of a sphere. What would the phases of the moon look like as seen from Earth?

What happens when you take the flat earth hypothesis and raise it to the third power? For starters, you gain a whole new appreciation for the predominantly up/down gravity of our good-ol ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson recently called out flat-earthers in one tweet: It's not just lunar eclipses that would look different if Earth were actually flat. Sports, plants, and even the oceans would be ...

ESA’s Earth System Data Lab is a new virtual lab to access a wide array of Earth observations across space, time and variables. It consists of two elements: the data cube and an interface to ...