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SIMPLY PUT: Earth is spinning faster and here’s how it could impact your lives
However, this wasn’t just a one-time fluke. Earth has been in a hurry in recent years. As pe…
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Despite how it may have felt, 2020 was shorter than previous years - Earth is spinning quicker than it has in decades
Earth beat the record for shortest day ever 28 times in 2020. In 2021, scientists predict the plane…
Susie Neilson
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A simple animation by a planetary scientist reveals what would happen without leap years: December would eventually drift into summer
O'Donoghue spends his free time making animations of astronomy concepts like the moon's retreat fro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Human activities are changing Earth's spin so much that it might affect how we keep time
Human-driven climate change is causing Earth's poles to lose so much ice it's changing the planet's…
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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This animation shows why leap years are necessary. Without them, December would eventually drift into summer.
Leap years are necessary because, without them, December would drift into summer over time. The pur…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A New Year's Eve 'leap second' could make your countdown to midnight last 11 seconds instead of 10
For anyone in the UTC±00:00 time zone, which includes London and the UK, the official clock will re…
Dina Spector
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We're about to experience the earliest spring since 1896 because of something unusual that happened in 2000
"Our calendar system is set up in a 400 year cycle so that it makes up for all the little fractions…
Jessica Orwig
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Tonight's countdown to 2017 will be 11 seconds long
This will be the 27th second added since 1972, with the last one occurring on June 30 last year and…
Ben Moshinsky
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John Oliver created a whole website of hilarious ways to spend your extra leap second
Last Week Tonight purchased the domain name spendyourleapsecondhere.com and created a web…
Tanya Lewis
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Here's How Google Is Going To Stop The Internet Breaking When An Extra Second Is Added On June 30
Basically, when clocks hit 11.59.60 on June 30, clocks will pause for one Mississippi to let the wo…
Joshua Barrie
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Google found a clever way to prevent tomorrow's leap second from crashing its computers
Leap seconds are a phenomenon that scientists implemented in 1972 as a means to mitigate time anoma…
Alastair Stevenson
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Why this Bovet watch costs over $450,000
BOVET watches are inherently limited in production simply because of the complexity that's associat…
Emma Fierberg
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An astronomer's animation shows how Earth and the moon both orbit a spot 3,000 miles from the true center of the planet
All planetary systems have a barycenter, a point where their mass is balanced. In the Earth-moon sy…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life
NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ancient alie…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Closing your eyes in space can cause a terrifying sensation
So while most of the time it may feel like just hanging, not being drawn to the ground as we earthb…
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22,000 people had to be evacuated from a Barcelona music festival after a massive stage fire
More than 22,000 people were evacuated from an electronic music festival in Barcelona on Saturday n…
Reuters,Rob Price
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On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the Google Doodle honors the Apollo 11 mission with an animated video of the journey
The video, which is just over four minutes and 30 seconds, features the iconic imagery of the moon …
Kat Tenbarge
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to address Earth from orbiting international Space Station
Meanwhile, crew of the Polaris Dawn the Elon Musk-led private charted spaceflight created history w…