For the past couple of decades, Earth’s rotation around its axis has been speeding up. Consequently, the days have grown ...
For the first time in seven years, the average length of day became longer in 2023. New predictions suggest that March 2025 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Polar ice melt driven by climate change is affecting Earth's rotation, according to new research. We may have to adjust timekeeping by "skipping" a second in 2029. A human-driven change in the Earth's ...
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, ...
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 ...