Deep in the bowels of the Princes Square shopping centre, at the base of the wood-paneled escalators, hangs a Foucault pendulum. Installed in the late 1980s after the Victorian square was renovated ...

It seems crazy,” Princeton physicist Chris Chyba remarked, reflecting on the device that now sits at the center of a debate ...

Scientists studying the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan have discovered a mysterious, gyroscopic motion they can't quite explain.

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

The Coriolis effect, caused by Earth's rotation, deflects winds and currents, shaping global weather patterns, storm paths, ...

They then oriented the cylinder in a north-south direction set at a 57° angle ... suggesting that it was due to the energy from the Earth's rotation. The researchers note that they accounted ...

Currently, the Earth's inner core is moving slowly and in the opposite direction relative to the rotation of the Earth's surface. Scientists have noted that since the early 1970s, the inner core ...

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates ... and how it moves — its rotation speed and direction — has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence ...

Earth's composition is more complicated than we think and is changing continuously every day. The inner part of the planet can be divided into three different layers: crust, mantle, and core.

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates ... and how it moves — its rotation speed and direction — has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence ...