This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Before Joe Biden abandoned his bid for a second term, his shrinking corps ...

Atomic clocks use quantum physics and the resonant frequency of atoms, like cesium, to define time. Modern timekeeping relies on the accuracy of atomic clocks, which revolutionized timekeeping by ...

After reading The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking a while back, I discovered that he may have made a mistake — and probably Albert Einstein, too! It has to do with the concept of time ...

Quentin Tarantino, who is this year’s guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival‘s Cannes Classics section, shared his passion for George Sherman — the prolific U.S. director of low-budget Westerns ...

A first lady has about 100 days in the White House to define herself, and Michelle Obama has already used up more than half her allotted time. The enduring historical images of presidents’ wives are ...

On a recent trip to Tucson, I heard zero complaints about a pending hour of lost sleep. On March 10, 2024—when most clocks across the country will advance one hour for daylight saving time—no one in ...