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What’s Behind The Strange Slowing Of The Earth’s Core?

The Earth’s inner core may be slowing its rate of rotation—possibly reversing direction relative to the rest of the planet.

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If you saw this headline, or one like it, you might reasonably have thought the world has gone mad. The inside of the Earth is spinning backwards? *But that is not at all what the actual research says.* [a short thread] #RealityCheck

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Misleading tweet headline from AFP claiming that Earth's core may have started "rotating the other way."

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