Did you feel it? The planet spun a bit faster last week, by enough to give us our shortest day of the year, so far.

Anyone trotting out the well-worn "it’s been a long day" line on July 22 might end up having to rephrase, as Earth is set for ...

Zotov predicts Earth’s rotation may soon decelerate once again. If he’s right, this sudden speeding-up could prove to be just a temporary anomaly in the planet’s long-term trend toward slower rotation ...

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The planet’s spin hasn’t always been this way. Scientists say a day used to be just 19 hours long. Back then, tides from the ...

Earth will complete its rotation slightly faster than usual on Tuesday, July 22, resulting in one of the shortest days ever recorded. The ...

July 22, the Earth will complete its daily rotation 1.34 milliseconds faster than the standard 24 hours, making it the second ...

July 22 will not be a normal 24-hour day. Instead, Earth's rotation will be completed just shy of those 24 hours. Find out why ...

On July 22, Earth will complete its daily rotation 1.34 milliseconds faster than the standard 24 hours, marking it one of the ...

Zhang, M. and Zhang, G. (2025) Dynamical Mechanisms of Melt Migration Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges. Open Journal of Geology, 15, 358-376. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2025.157018 .

Time is what we want most, but use worst,” William Penn once wrote. But for the first time in the annals of modern times, the very fabric of timekeeping is being threatened by no human weakness, but ...

The origins in question, researchers believe, could be the BLOBS found deep within the Earth. These mysterious structures ...