This somewhat odd-looking apparatus is being used to measure earth’s rotation. At the heart of the system is a PlayStation Move controller, used because of its dual-axis gyroscope which has the ...

Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the ...

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) may lose a second for the first time. How much can change in a second? The impact of climate change has been felt across the globe in rising temperatures and rising ...

Science, New Series, Vol. 166, No. 3905 (Oct. 31, 1969), pp. 596-598 (3 pages) Pioneer 6, which was launched into orbit around the sun on 16 December 1965, was occulted by the sun in the last half of ...

Table 1 Properties of Arecibo (1–16) and GBT (GBT-1 and GBT-2) bursts Figure 3: Magnitude of rotation measure versus dispersion measure for fast radio bursts and Galactic pulsars. Monitoring the ...

Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven ...

Spinning around: physicists have measured the effect of rotation on a quantum spin embedded in a diamond. (Courtesy: iStock/Gizmo) The effect of rapid rotation on a single quantum spin in a piece of ...

A new type of gyroscope based on interfering atoms has been developed that can determine the latitude where the instrument is located – and also measure true north and the Earth’s rate of rotation.