For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages ...

What’s your guess for Earth’s most isolated island? It’s not Hawaii. It’s not Fiji. In fact, if you’re thinking beaches, palm ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

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

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Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Shares of the little-known mining company soared on Thursday on news that the Pentagon would become the largest shareholder.

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

The Department of Defense led by Sec. Pete Hegseth made a deal with a U.S. mining company to secure the military's needs for ...

But with atomic clocks tracking the Earth’s rotational speed so closely that once every year and a half or so, the ...