From smartphones to cars to critical infrastructure, these early satellites power some of the most modern technologies of ...

The South Australian Geospatial Alliance will hold a free social night at The Cathedral Hotel in North Adelaide on Thursday, ...

China’s Institute of Mechanics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has announced that its third-generation superconducting weak-force measurement system passed a field test, a development that ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change and Environmental Sciences category has gone in this 18th edition to Carl Wunsch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for his ...

Geodesists are urgently needed to keep the current systems working. But where will they come from, what demands must they meet in the future, and what does this mean for the approach to training and ...

THE title of the work under notice is a little mis leading, and might better have been “An Intro duction to Geodesy and Geodynamics,” considering that it contains no reference to such important ...

Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you’re along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways. First, ...

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Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 ...

If you’re the kind of person who gets a lot done, you’re grateful for every one of the 86,400 seconds that make up a day. On July 9, however, as well as on July 22, and August 5, you won’t get your ...

The atomic clock payload to be installed on the ISS's Columbus module, aims to push the boundaries of precision timekeeping and fundamental physics research.