An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...

Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work ...

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China ...

Can you imagine a dam so huge that it can slow down the daily movement of the Earth? Well, there is one. The massive ...

The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While ...

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 ...

The world's largest hydroelectric dam, which opened in 2003, is so vast that it actually has an effect on the spin on the Earth.

In fact, one simulation estimated that the deserts ... Wow, maybe we really should reverse Earth's rotation! But hold on. If the Trade Winds reverse direction, it means that other wind patterns ...

The speed of rotation of the earth has slowed down thus increasing the time of one day by 0.06 microseconds, i.e. now the day has become a bit longer. Even the North and South Poles have shifted 2-2 ...

Related stories But this new research suggests that climate change is slowing down the acceleration of Earth's rotation and will delay that negative leap second to 2029. Losing one second of time ...

One of the new total solar eclipse is discovered ... which should help scientists better document changes in the speed of Earth’s rotation through history. “Our new Delta-T data fill a ...