If you feel like there's less time in the day, you're correct. Scientists recorded the shortest day on Earth since the invention of the atomic clock. Other WRAL Top Stories Our planet's rotation ...

Earth's changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers ...

Earth's changing spin is causing it to rotate slightly faster than before, which may lead to the subtraction a second from clocks around 2029. This phenomenon, while not catastrophic, is unprecedented ...

In the gloomy days of January, time seems to drag. According to the Einstein theory of relativity, it actually does—in a minute amount that means little to anyone except a scientist. During its annual ...