来自MSN8 个月
Which way does Earth spin? What about the other planets?
a sister site of Live Science. Earth and most of the other planets — including Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — also spin counterclockwise, but there are some exceptions.
‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
Business Insider11 个月
Human activities are changing Earth's spin so much that it might affect how we keep time
"Enough ice has melted to move sea level enough that we can actually see the rate of the Earth's rotation has been affected," Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of ...
BGR1 个月
Scientists want to shorten a minute to 59 seconds
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists are considering shortening the minute to 59 seconds to make up for the Earth ...
Popular Science13 天
Earth’s inner core is less solid than we thought
Earth’s core is pretty dynamic. Its spin speeds up and slows down based on how its two primary layers are behaving. As we improve the waveform techniques used to study the deepest layer ...
CNN12 天
‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is ...
Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new revelation ... producer whose work has appeared in Live Science, Scientific American ...
Business Today3 个月
‘Adding 0.06 microseconds to each day’: How Chinese dams are slowing Earth’s spin
Mega-buildings and dams like China’s Three Gorges Dam are subtly shifting Earth’s rotation. With its 40 billion cubic meters of water, the dam affects our planet’s spin, adding 0.06 ...