Organisers are expecting a world record haul of world records at this summer’s Olympic Games in London. The unpredictable effects on gravity, caused by The Slowing, have already been playing havoc with sporting fixtures across the world. The International Frisbee Golf Championships was cancelled last month due to several lost Frisbees, and the annual Female [...]

Commuters struggling with Monday morning blues were delighted today as a gigantic glowing sunrise transformed Trafalgar Square.   The two-and-a-half ton work of art was erected to replicate dawn at 6.51.   The “sun” flooded the square with four million lumens of light – the equivalent of 60,000 bulbs. It was created to produce summer [...]

Robin McKie, science editor The Observer, Sunday 15 January 2012 Times are changing. Delegates will gather in Geneva this week to vote on a plan to alter the way we measure the passage of the seconds, minutes and hours that make up the day. If agreed, telling the time will no longer be determined ultimately [...]

From the essential perspective that the Earth-Moon could represent an interrelated system, the respective spin-orbits should be evaluated to predict the effect of any changes that might result with the passage of time. The spin-orbital rates can be predicted to ultimately change with time due to the spin rate of the Earth. Modern research shows [...]

(Reuters) – When Pablo Suarez began teaching farmers, fishermen and emergency volunteers about rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns using scientists and a powerpoint presentation, people were falling asleep in their chairs. Eventually he decided on a very different approach. “I had to convey the idea of a storm, of an extreme weather event, [...]

(Reuters) – Rolling blackouts could hit Texas more frequently in coming summers as the state’s electricity surplus shrinks dramatically, the independent grid operator said in a report on Thursday. The state’s electric power reserve margin — a cushion against blackouts — will fall to 12.11 percent next summer, well below the agency’s minimum target of [...]

(Reuters) – The Arctic zone has moved into a warmer, greener “new normal” phase, which means less habitat for polar bears and more access for development, an international scientific team reported on Thursday. Arctic air temperatures were higher – about 2.5 degrees F (1.5 degrees C) higher in 2011 than the baseline number for the [...]

(Reuters) – An upcoming cycle of stormy solar activity risks causing damage to electrical transformers and threatening vulnerable energy infrastructure around the globe, a report by an insurance group says. The sun follows a predictable 11 year activity cycle, with the next period of stormy activity expected to begin in 2012-13. The report by German [...]

(Reuters) – Up to 12 inches of snow was expected to fall in parts of Colorado and New Mexico on Saturday as a storm system moved through the central U.S., bringing what forecasters said would be the first significant snow of the season to the region. From New Mexico to the Great Lakes, the storm [...]