For the past couple of decades, Earth’s rotation around its axis has been speeding up. Consequently, the days have grown ...
One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is ...
After a few years of speeding up, our planet now appears to be slowing down. For the first time in seven years, the average length of day became longer in 2023. Meanwhile, new predictions suggest ...
THE PERFECT day should have 86,400 seconds: 24 hours for Earth to spin around its axis, 60 minutes in each hour, and 60 seconds in each minute. But the apparent precision of these simple ...
The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global ...
In the 1850s British railway companies started introducing a single standard time to make their timetables consistent. Before that, every city would set its own clock based on the observation of ...
How much can change in a second? The impact of climate change has been felt across the globe in rising temperatures and rising sea levels — but a new study suggests global warming has accelerated the ...
Reckoned by atomic seconds, however, Earth’s full journey around the sun took 31,622,401.14. As a result, two additional seconds were added: the very first “leap seconds”. One, on June 30th that year, ...
CNN - One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting ...
One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice ...