Earth's Rotation Accelerates, Shortening Days and Altering Time in 2025
TL;DR
Earth's rotation is unexpectedly speeding up, causing some days in July and August to be 1.30 to 1.50 milliseconds shorter than usual, a phenomenon not fully explained by current models, with possible influences including internal Earth processes and earthquakes.
- "Nobody Expected This": Earth's Rotation Will Speed Up Tomorrow, Bucking The Downward Trend IFLScience
- Why is the Earth spinning faster? Is time speeding up? Australia’s experts give us their second opinion The Guardian
- Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorter Live Science
- Summer 2025 will have three of the shortest days on record as Earth's rotation unexpectedly accelerates New York Post
- Will we lose time on July 9? Midweek day losing time; here's why Bergen Record
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