The world is doing away with the leap second, an extra second that gets inserted into the global timescale every few years due to earth's slowing rotation. It already feels like we don't have enough ...

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 ...

Climate change has been blamed for many dramatic effects on our planet and our lives. Now it may even affect the measurement of time. You've probably heard of "leap seconds" — the sliver of time ...