The custom of changing the clocks twice a year has been around in the UK for over a century, taking place once in March and once in October. There’s still a little while until the clocks change ...

The brain teaser challenges people to decipher how many times a particular number will appear on a digital clock in 24 hours. Do you think can you solve this one? If so, can you do this without using ...

While presenting the award for best collaboration at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, Flavor Flav gifted Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles her very own diamond-encrusted bronze stopwatch as a ...

the ultracold strontium clock at JILA in Boulder, is like a stopwatch that can count the billionths of a nanosecond, or 18 digits past the decimal point. It loses only one second every 40 billion ...

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.

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Ekkehard Peik is a clock-maker. But instead of spending his days looking at tiny cogs and springs through a magnifying glass, the tools of his trade are powerful lasers, wires and, occasionally ...

It would be easy to assume that the precision of an atomic clock may not have a role in day-to-day life, but even services like global positioning systems (GPS), digital communication, and ...

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 ...

By coupling a strontium atomic clock with a crystal containing thorium nuclei, a team of physicists has successfully demonstrated the core technology that will lead us to the first fully realized and ...