In my role as a staff research associate at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I spend time at sea about once a year deploying robotic floats with biogeochemical sensors. The floats ...

Scientists predict that Aug. 5 will be 1.34 milliseconds shorter than a standard day, according to the International Earth Rotation and Reference System Service and the U.S. Naval Observatory, ...

Nations have started a crucial meeting to finalize a treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis. Tuesday's meeting ...

August 5th, 2025, is predicted to be one of the shortest days of the year, approximately 1.34 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours. Scientists attribute this phenomenon to changes in the Earth's core ...

Blink and you missed it, quite literally. Today, Earth spun faster than usual, racing through one of its shortest days since ...

Incredibly, today will be approximately 1.34 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours, according to the International Earth ...

Earth is spinning mysteriously fast on Tuesday, August 5, making it the third shortest day of this summer. Normally, the ...

Plastics are a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" for human health, according to a new expert report. The Lancet ...

Rhowan Ho is a first-year PhD student in marine biology with a focus on parasitology and science communication at Scripps ...

Planetary scientist Meenakshi Wadhwa is due to return to her postdoctoral roots at UCSD in October after six years as director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State ...

As the Earth spins faster this summer, the days are just slightly shorter. But those milliseconds are adding up.