- Science
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 27th, 2015
Reminder: June 30 Will Be Precisely One Second Longer
Tuesday, June 30, will last 86,401 seconds
- Weekly Round-up
- By Laura Sinpetru
- January 11th, 2015
Top 10 Coolest Science News of the Week: January 5-11, 2015
It's been a busy week for scientists across the world, here are their most important announcements of the past few days
- Science
- By Laura Sinpetru
- January 9th, 2015
June 30, 2015 Will Be a Second Longer than Any Other Day of the Year
The so-called leap second will be added to June 30, 2015, to sync atomic clocks with our planet's rotational time
- Science
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 21st, 2013
World's Timekeepers Battle Over Leap Second
A consensus can't be reached on whether to get rid of the leap second or keep it
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- July 2nd, 2012
Leap Second Wreaks Havoc with Mozilla, Wikipedia, Reddit, Others Using Java
Google was the only large company having prepared for this in advance