Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.

A research team at VTT MIKES has set a new record in optical-clock absolute frequency measurements using a strontium ...

The subtle nip in the air can only mean one thing — it's officially autumn. And with the season change comes the clock change. Daylight Savings Time — also known as British Summer — (between March and ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem "global catastrophe." The decades-old international ...

Physicists are quietly rewriting one of the most basic units in science, using a new generation of optical clocks that can ...

In a nod to history, the digital clock’s seconds indicator incorporates the British railway system’s renowned double arrow ...

Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been. The ...

How to change the clock for daylight saving time When California time springs forward in March What changes the day DST starts California and most of the U.S. turn the clock ahead an hour — or springs ...

From time to time, you might notice a shot of a clock in a movie. In a film like "Back to the Future," they're key to the plot; lightning strikes the clock tower at exactly 10:04 p.m. But often, ...

Improvements in clocks are setting the stage for a redefinition of the second. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Earlier this year, in a nondescript lab at the National Institute of ...