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While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...
We all know that human activity is causing our planet to warm up at an unprecedented rate, but you probably didn’t know that it’s also changing the speed and shape of the planet as well? And the ...
The 24-hour day we’re used to might not stay the same forever. Scientists say Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing down ...
China's Three Gorges Dam, built on the Yangtze River, is also one of the reasons why Earth is not able to rotate to its full ...
The Moon has been Earth’s constant companion for billions of years, influencing everything from tides to the stability of our planet’s axis. But what if, suddenly, the Moon disappeared? This video ...
Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...
Alex Foster’s first novel is about a futuristic high-speed travel system with troubling global consequences.
Earth’s rotation is slowing, and 25-hour days may be our future. Lunar drag and planetary shifts are stretching time—forcing ...
Changing the laws of time is functionally impossible, yet NASA has revealed that one gigantic man-made structure in China is so big that it might just have altered Earth's rotation. With the ...
Sunita Williams and Butch, who last year set off for an eight-day Starliner test flight that swelled into a nine-month stay ...
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the U.S. astronauts left on the International Space Station last year by Boeing's troubled ...
Even though changing the flow of time sounds like ... you’d need over 16 million structures like the Three Gorges Dam to slow Earth’s rotation enough to add a full second to the year.