An international meeting is considering a fundamental change to timekeeping, potentially severing the ancient link between ...

A battle of forces, driven by the motion of Earth’s core, can explain small variations in the planet’s rotation, study finds.

Look at a satellite map of tropical cyclones and you'll notice something odd. The big spiraling storms cluster on either side ...

Leap years show that humans may have an odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even have to add extra seconds to ...

Earth’s rotation subtly changes the length of the day. Now our clocks won’t change with it — at least not for a very long ...

University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature.

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won't even notice. We're talking even less time than the ...

Since 1972, experts have added 27 seconds to Coordinated Universal Time to keep it aligned with Earth's rotation, but it has ...

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This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Climate change is causing the ice masses in ...

Introduction]Beneath our feet, deep within the Earth, lies a massive lump of metal known as the 'inner core'.In recent years, ...

Climate change is causing the ice masses in Greenland and Antarctica to melt. Water from the polar regions is flowing into the world’s oceans –and especially into the equatorial region. “This means ...