Clocks have become a staple of every country, business, and household in the world. With countries adopting time zones and ...

Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

Experts look into the history behind daylight saving time – and why some people argue it shouldn't exist anymore.

Ancient magicians and healers often incorporated the word abraxas into their spells and rituals to invoke supernatural forces ...

Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught ...

A sundial was accurate enough for most purposes ... it easier for travelers and for business people not to have to change clocks or deal with a time difference when scheduling phone calls and ...

Inside, you’ll find a number of murals and the world’s longest sundial, laid in 1656 by the famous Italian astronomer ...

Fleet Street is one of London's most ancient thoroughfares. It dates back to Roman times when it formed the route out of the ...

A new season began for the CSUN women’s basketball team Monday night officially kicking off Matadors’ head coach Angie Ned’s ...

IN these days of accurate clocks and watches no one thinks of using a sun dial to tell the time of day. At best such an instrument can be right but four times a year, and in many places it can ...