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Earth will spin faster than normal on Wednesday, but blink and you’ll miss it
Earth is expected to complete a full rotation on July 9 roughly 1.30 milliseconds faster than usual.
Why is the Earth spinning faster? Is time speeding up? Australia’s experts give us their second opinion
A standard Earth day is 86,400 seconds, but over three days in July and August, scientists expect the planet’s rotation…
China’s Rare Earth Origin Story, Explained
Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on helping…
New interstellar comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, NASA says
The comet should be visible by telescope through September, before it gets too close to the sun, and reappear in…
Cyborg schoolgirls destroy capitalism in cheeky new action game from Earth Defense Force devs
In a futuristic world where Japanese office workers are forced to toil for 24 hours a day, who will mete…
The Woman in the Yard, The Day the Earth Blew Up, and every movie new to streaming this weekend
Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and…
Space Elevators Could Totally Work—If Earth Days Were Much Shorter
What would it take to run a cable from the ISS to Earth? Depends how fast you want the Earth…
These may be the oldest rocks on Earth
Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada.
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth
Samples from a new site place the rocks at approximately 4.16 billion years old, in the earliest period of Earth’s…
