As convenient as it might be to use your phone as an alarm clock, standalone alarm clocks come with all kinds of features that can make waking up — or even going to sleep — a little less painful.

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder ...

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Atomic clocks have served as the world’s most precise means of measuring time for over 70 years, but their reign may be finally coming to an end. According to an announcement from the National ...

However, there are actually a few states in the United States where clocks won’t “fall back” for the biannual event. Extraterrestrial signal picked up by Earth from deep space Pa.

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Researchers have made a big step towards the creation of the long theorized nuclear clock, by getting the most accurate measurement of the frequency of light required to push thorium nuclei into a ...

FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock might not lose a thousandth of one in a decade.

Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

Though Labor Day has passed and fall starts in less than three weeks, we’re still more than eight weeks from the end of Daylight Saving Time and turning our clocks back one hour. Daylight Saving ...