Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

In his analysis, Agnew used mathematical models to tease apart the contributions of known geophysical phenomena to Earth’s rotation and to predict their effects on future leap seconds.

the idea that this effect is large enough to change the rotation of the entire Earth,” says study co-author Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The mass of ...

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ... The negative leap second will also affect IT systems. This is because a clock usually runs from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60 before ...

But in general, Earth's rotation has been slowing for millennia, mainly due to a process known as lunar tidal friction, in which the moon's gravitational effect on our oceans pulls water away from ...

That might not sound like much, but when we’re talking about the Earth’s rotation, every billionth of a second can have a massive effect on our planet and the parts of our world that rely on ...

(Courtesy: Marco Di Vita) A new experiment has measured the effect of Earth’s rotation on entangled states of light. The experiment, which features an optical fibre-based device called a Sagnac ...

Because the spinning of the inner core affects movement in the outer core, inner core rotation is thought to help power Earth’s magnetic field, though more research is required to unravel its ...

But it also affects sea-level rise and Earth’s rotation — datasets the research team used to better track water storage for decades longer than previous studies. “What we were looking for ...