As I quickly discovered, you can spin it in the direction that the earth actually spins. There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. We call it the rotation axis.

The model, proposed in 2023, described the pattern of rotation speed and direction of Earth core. The model proposed that the inner core of the Earth had spun faster than Earth's crust in past ...

Wow, maybe we really should reverse Earth's rotation! But hold on. If the Trade Winds reverse direction, it means that other wind patterns change too. Including the Prevailing Westerlies that ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a Japanese research team has studied ancient ...

Local weather can also have a (small) effect The spin axis of the Earth doesn't move steadily in one direction. Within a year it might also wiggle back and forth. These wiggles are influenced by a ...

It was the first satisfactory demonstration of the earth's rotation using laboratory apparatus rather than astronomical observations. If you start a Foucault Pendulum swinging in one direction, after ...

Intriguingly, assuming that the system would work and would be scaled up to meet the demands of the entire planet, the Earth's rotational spin would only slow by seven milliseconds over the next ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are among the human-linked factors altering Earth’s spin. The thing all these factors have in common ...

Let’s put a marker on Scotland. When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s day time, when it’s facing away from the Sun that's night time. One spin of the Earth is how we measure one ...