Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...
For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...
What started as a hobby became a full-blown business for Harold MacVittie more than a decade ago. His Chapin clock shop is still ticking.
Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...
What if you could build a clock that would last for 10,000 years? A clock that would tick only once a year, bong once a century, and cuckoo once a millennium? A clock that would be a symbol of ...
We say this word multiple times a day, but what does it really mean? Two linguists took the time to explain the fascinating origin of o'clock. Read on to learn what the o in o’clock stands for and how ...
For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests ...
Sommarøy’s time-free zone was, in a sense, an attempt by residents to reclaim their connection to a more natural measure of time. After all, every year, the island experiences roughly 1,656 hours of ...