Alex Denno, the owner of Palatine's Tick Tock Clock Repairs, is fond of a saying that is a truism in his industry. "You have to put time in to fix time," said Denno, in his second year as company ...

With clocks relentlessly ticking and chimes melodically ringing, the Tick Tock Shop is not a quiet place. But that symphony — from desk clocks and wall clocks and cuckoo clocks and more — is lost on ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...

It’s Friday, which means I have to wind up the clock on the wall. It’s my wife’s clock. She brought it from Poland, where it had originally been her paternal grandmother’s who lived with them when my ...

In 1714, Benjamin Franklin was only 8 years-old, it was still 62 years before the colonies would declare independence from Great Britain and Johann Sebastian Bach would’ve been 30 years-old and still ...

Normal cells abide by strict biological schedules – that is, they grow, divide, and die at regular intervals according to the body’s circadian clock. For cancer cells, however, this clock is ...

For many pretenure faculty, the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are akin to moving in slow motion in a race against time. While their research productivity has ground to a halt, ...

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins has big plans for his agency, but less and less time to get them done.