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Earth's Accelerating Spin To Shorten 2 More Days

Earth's Accelerating Spin To Shorten Two More Days

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With less resistance, Earth is able to spin a bit faster, which makes the day slightly shorter than usual.

Space on MSN · 4h

Did you feel it? Earth just had one of its shortest days ever and 2 more are coming

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

CBC on MSN · 15h

Why Earth will spin slightly faster on 3 days this summer

July 22, and Aug. 5, Earth will rotate a tiny bit quicker making those days ever so slightly shorter than 24 hours.

Pentagon takes stake in rare-earth firm

Forbes on MSN · 3h

U.S. Becomes Largest Shareholder In MP Materials—Rare Earth Miner—To Counter China

The Defense Department on Thursday became the largest shareholder in MP Materials, which owns the only rare earth mine in the U.S., amid a surge in demand for rare earths mined in the U.S. as China has curbed its rare earth exports amid a trade war with the U.S.

Markets Insider on MSN · 2h

The Pentagon is taking a big stake in a rare earth mining company, sending the stock up 60%

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

Wall Street Journal · 5h

Pentagon to Take Stake in Rare-Earth Company, Challenging China’s Control

The deal would see the Defense Department take a 15% stake in MP Materials and spend billions of dollars investing in the company and purchasing its output.

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Earth’s Rotation Is Speeding Up This Summer. Here’s Why

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

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BLOBS on the move: Deep Earth structures may explain giant volcanic explosions

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

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Scientists Found a Place Where the Earth’s Layers Are Upside Down

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

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Airports Could Help Aliens Find Earth

The "unintentional electromagnetic leakage" from airport radars and military radar systems can be "detectable across ...

New Scientist23h

Given Earth rotates, can I travel by going straight up and waiting?

Our respondents are quick to point out the issues with using Earth’s rotation to get to a destination, not least the ...

LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth

LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.

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MP Materials partners with Department of Defense to boost US rare earth magnet supply, shares soar

MP Materials said on Thursday it has entered into a public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to ...

Live Science on MSN22h

Dams around the world hold so much water they've shifted Earth's poles, new research shows

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

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