The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth? A new study reports that researchers have successfully ...

Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

It has been found that these changes are experienced similarly at all stations where observatories have been placed on the earth's surface; they are therefore variations of the magnetic force of ...

The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in ... Getty Images We also enjoy protection from Earth's magnetic field, generated by our planet's rotation and its iron-nickel core.

By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...

By the laws of physics, the slowest the Earth could slow its spin would be 1 rotation every 365 days. That situation is called "sun-synchronous" and would force one side of our planet to always ...

In recent years, research has focused on a possible correlation between the sun or moon and seismic activity on Earth, with some studies pointing to tidal forces or electromagnetic effects ...

If Earth stopped spinning ... The planet would also lose its magnetic field, which protects us from solar wind and coronal mass ejections. As a result, it… People in industrial societies ...