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On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...
Earth's rotation is expected to speed up in July and August this year, resulting in shorter days. Specifically, July 9, July ...
Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...
Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records ...
This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...
If it feels like summer is flying by, science says you’re not imagining it. Starting Wednesday, Earth is literally spinning ...
The 24-hour day isn’t a given anymore. In recent years, scientists have discovered Earth is rotating slightly faster, which ...
Well according to astronomers, last night was a few milliseconds 1.3 ms shorter to be precise and there are more days this ...
A frightening simulation shows what would happen if the world was to stop spinning. As we all know (and if you don’t, give ...
Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...