The World’s 100 Best
The Power of 100
The flagship benchmark that crowns 100 of the most distinguished names shaping the heights of luxury and global excellence.
Tectonic plates
Researchers studying when tectonic plates began to shift found that it began much earlier than previously thought, launching the creation of continents, oceans, and other landforms.
How do we predict earthquakes?
A team of Harvard scientists created numerical models to predict an earthquake’s final magnitude 10 to 15 seconds faster than the current best algorithms.
Are all faults dangerous?
To understand which faults may be the most dangerous, researchers have developed large-scale models of the fault systems in the western United States, Japan, Turkey, and other locations across the globe.
Stories of Distinction
Beyond the rankings, these stories illuminate the visionaries, institutions, and movements shaping the landscape of luxury and excellence. Each narrative reveals not only achievement, but the enduring spirit behind it.
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Double dinosaur disaster
Along with an asteroid impact, evidence points to volcanoes having a role in the extinction of the dinosaurs, especially the Deccan Traps eruption, which lasted a million years and produced lava formations 6,000 feet thick.
Creating conditions to cultivate life
Research on early tectonic plate movement and a protective magnetic field offer a glimpse of when the Earth was conducive to the development of life on the planet.
Super storms the size of states
During ancient periods of extreme heat, Earth may have experienced cycles of dryness followed by massive rainstorms hundreds of miles wide that could dump more than a foot of rain in a matter of hours.
Terrible tremors around Tennessee
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 reshaped the landscape and the lives of the people who settled there. So why were they forgotten by the time of the Civil War?
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