If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New ...

Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer. By Jacey Fortin This article was updated ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 ...

However, with the help of seismic analyses (i.e., studies of earthquakes), researchers have discovered that this rotation is by no means constant but fluctuates. These fluctuations can be so massive ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. That corralling of water is pushing Earth’s geographic poles away from its ...