Discover how reading a quantum clock can surprisingly cost more energy than keeping it ticking, impacting timekeeping and ...

For as long as people have looked for answers in the night sky, the idea of stepping into a machine and arriving in an ...

The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the ...

THE interesting article by Mr. A. E. Bell on the “Horologium Oscillatorium” in NATURE of August 30 rather suggests that this was Huygens' first book on the pendulum clock. He published a description, ...

How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is at the heart of the research field of quantum metrology. One example is ...

Three years ago, I published a blog post saying, “Today, there are calls for keeping Daylight Saving Time throughout the year.” Much of that opinion came from worries that tinkering with time has ...