Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean tides, volcanic activity and earthquakes can affect rotation speed. For years, however, the Earth has been spinning ...

You won’t notice the sunrise arrive 1.33 milliseconds sooner, but to precision atomic clocks, it will be obvious ...

"Extant cyanobacteria utilize a circadian clock to predict the light-dark environmental cycle by the Earth's rotation in order to achieve efficient photosynthetic reactions. We wanted to know the ...

As much as a millisecond or more could be shaved off the clock on Wednesday, July 9, on account of how the moon's position relative to Earth is influencing our planet's rotation.

Research team traces evolutionary history of bacterial circadian clock on ancient Earth Date: May 20, 2025 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: To better understand the ...

Earth just had one of its shortest days on record, and it's not alone. Our planet is spinning faster, with two more shorter-than-usual days ahead.

From space, ACES will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a synchronized clock network, which will support its main purpose: to perform tests of fundamental physics. But it ...

Satellogic Poised to Deliver Its NextGen Satellite and Technology Transfer for Malaysia’s Earth Observation Satellite Program Published Jun 18, 2025 9:00am EDT ...

This evolution continued through at least two Snowball Earth events, about 2.4 and 0.7 billion years ago, when the planet was covered in ice, and through the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation event, when ...