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As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...
Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.
The Defense Department is buying $400 million of stock in rare-earth mining company MP Materials as it seeks to boost ...
Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...