Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

Which cuckoo clocks are best? Cuckoo clocks are some of the most intricate and beautifully designed clocks there are. Built with hours of care and patience, they are typically hand-carved over months ...

As the German UNESCO Commission reports on its website, while watchmaking has been on a national list since 2021, the ...

Mental_floss blog editor Jason English told me his daughter wanted a cuckoo clock, but she wanted one with a dog instead of a cuckoo. I began to wonder why clocks use cuckoo birds to identify the hour ...

MOSCOW — Alexander Rogozhkin’s “The Cuckoo” took main prizes at Russia’s first Golden Eagle film awards but, controversially, foreign-lingo Oscar nomination “House of Fools” by Andrei Konchalovsky ...