August 5th, 2025, is predicted to be one of the shortest days of the year, approximately 1.34 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours. Scientists attribute this phenomenon to changes in the Earth's core ...
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Earth's Rotation Is Picking Up Speed
Though we sum up a day as 24 hours and a year as 365 days, Earth's rotational and orbital speeds aren't exactly consistent. Instead, both fluctuate, swayed by atmospheric drag, tidal forces, changes ...
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When Milliseconds Matter How Earth’s Spin, Lunar Tides, and Atomic Clocks Shape Our Days
“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 ...
A standard day is 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds. Experts predict Aug. 5, 2025, may fall slightly under by 1.34 milliseconds. There have been several days in 2025 and in recent years that did not meet ...
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