A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

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

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Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes but bests its cousins in several other ways. Find out more about all the Great ...

Learn about the plane-sized asteroid that will pass by Earth the week of July 28, 2025, and find out how astronauts can track ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony ...

Beneath every ecosystem lies a structured world of soil types and names. This system reveals the planet’s diversity from the ground up.

Aardwolves can eat up to 300,000 termites per night, using a long, sticky tongue to lick them up from the surface, rather ...

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah – Brunei, a monarch whose wealth is anything but symbolic, is at the top of the list. Brunei's enormous oil and gas reserves, which he personally controls, are the main source ...

Born of a tectonic collision and still rising, the Himalayas are nature’s youngest, most fragile giants. Now, greed, reckless ...