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

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

The Army’s first armored Transformation-in-Contact unit is integrating 3D-printed drones for greater “massing of effects.” ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a Japanese research team has studied ancient ...

The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago when certain bacteria started releasing a large quantity of oxygen ...

That may sound harmless, but NASA scientists say it could have tiny effects on Earth’s rotation and shape. It’s not science fiction; similar shifts happen with major earthquakes and glacial ...

Now, some scientists are considering a completely new renewable energy source: the Earth’s rotation ... and behavior under rotation predicted by our effect, demonstrating that the observed ...

The effect was identified only in a carefully ... before anyone can conclude that the voltage truly results from Earth’s rotation, says Wijngaarden. Physicists could test whether the experiment ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

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 ...

"Even if the Earth's rotation is changing only slowly, this effect has to be taken into account when navigating in space," said co-author Benedikt Soja, a Professor of Space Geodesy (using ...

A group of researchers has revealed that climate change, although minimally, affects the lengthening of the day and the alteration of Earth’s rotation axis. And the reason is clear: the loss of ...