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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...