Last month, a consortium of 69 scientists from across Europe and Japan completed the largest and most coordinated comparison ...

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of ...

July 9 is expected to be one of the shortest days in history, but you won’t notice a difference. The Earth has been moving ...

Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...

In the final analysis, by showing that 10 heterogenous clocks across three continents could agree with each other to within a ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Due to the way Earth's rotation is measured, Wednesday, July 9 will technically lose time. Here's why you most likely won't ...

The 24-hour day isn’t a given anymore. In recent years, scientists have discovered Earth is rotating slightly faster, which ...

While that tiny time difference is imperceptible to humans, it represents part of a broader pattern that has left scientists ...

Each tick of the clock marks a second in a day, normally 86,400 of them. But on July 9, 2025, Earth completed its rotation 1.3 milliseconds faster than usual, making it the shortest day ever recorded ...