The Earth might soon need a “negative leap second” where a second will be removed from existence, experts say. That is because the spin of the Earth is gradually speeding up, meaning that a ...

But we're nearing a year when a negative leap second could be needed to shave time — an unprecedented step that will depend in part on how climate change affects the Earth's rotation ...

Earth is speeding up. In the coming years, a second will need to be removed from ... it looks like a negative one is quite likely.” However long it’s delayed, the use of a “drop second ...