(NEXSTAR) – There was bipartisan legislation, committee hearings, efforts from multiple states, and even presidential support, but the U.S. still observed the beginning and end of daylight saving time ...
When the sun rises on May 18 in the small Norwegian fishing village of Sommarøy, located above the Arctic Circle, it doesn’t set again until July 26. Later in the year, it vanishes from November until ...
In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time ...
What the Clock: Internet time servers are a critical part of the infrastructure used by companies and organizations that rely on atomic clocks to keep accurate time. A US agency responsible for ...
Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over the ...
A close friend once described my relationship with time as “loose.” A mere guide or suggestion, say. Yet as I walk up to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie to interview artist Christian Marclay ahead of ...
A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States. Reading time 2 minutes The official standard time of the United ...
When brain organoids were introduced roughly a decade ago, they were a scientific curiosity. The pea-sized blobs of brain tissue grown from stem cells mimicked parts of the human brain, giving ...
Educator Ruth Mork teaches kids about clocks — from sundials to cuckoo clocks to roosters. Ruth Mork introduces clocks of all kinds — sundials, candle clocks, hourglasses, cuckoos, even a rooster! She ...