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- Did you know that last year we had 28 of the fastest days ever recorded? Earth's rotation can be affected by a number of things, ...
- Boulder researchers have been tasked with maintaining atomic clocks, and periodically inserting
- Every few years, we give one day an extra second. It's called
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