“One second doesn’t sound like much, but in today’s interconnected world, getting the time wrong could lead to huge problems,” geophysicist Duncan Agnew says. Here, an official clock is seen at a golf tournament in Cape Town, South Africa. Johan Rynners/Getty Images
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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 scientists occasionally add to the world’s official time standard to resolve
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