Earth's core has stopped spinning, may change direction; experts say

AUSTIN (KXAN) -A bit of news you didn't expect, in a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience, scientists announced that they believe the Earth's inner core has stopped spinning.Scientists Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song from Peking University published the paper. They observed changes in the length of the Earth's day and magnetic field, which they said implied changes in the core.Based on seismic observations from 1964 through today, the pair said in their paper that they believe that