A study on the rotation of the Earth’s solid core confuses the media. Scientists of the Royal Observatory of Belgium clarify it
An article in Nature Geoscience on the rotation of the Earth’s core (more precisely its solid inner core) was recently published. However, the media have been misled by the press release of the science journal into thinking that the inner core stopped rotating or was even rotating in the opposite direction to that of the Earth surface, which is not [...]