While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

It has come to our attention that a few people out there are a little confused why flying against the rotation of the Earth does not ... time of publishing. Text, images, and links may be edited ...

Sebnem Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images From time to time, we have to tweak our clocks to keep pace with slight variations in the rate of Earth’s rotation. New research finds that melting ice ...

Over the past few decades, Earth's rotation around its axis—which determines how long a day is—has been speeding up. This trend has been making our days shorter; in fact, in June 2022 we set a ...

For a while, the scientists reported, the core’s rotation matched Earth’s spin. Then it slowed even more, until the core was moving backward relative to the fluid layers around it. At the time ...

It was shared over 200 times in 10 days. There is no evidence the rotation of Earth's inner core influences the climate. Research from an array of sources and methods shows human activities ...

Earth's rotation is slowing down, extending the length of a day ever so slightly. As temperatures rise, massive amounts of ice are melting from Greenland and Antarctica. That meltwater flows into ...

A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has found evidence that the Earth's rotation slows in a staircase pattern, with two stable periods that stand out. In their study, published in the ...