That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum ...

Would you believe a pendulum clock that can keep time accurately to within one second per year? If you answered “yes”, you’ve either never tried to regulate a pendulum clock yourself ...

UCLA physicists have developed a new thin film that uses far less of the rare thorium-229 while also being significantly less ...

Michigan, along with most of the U.S., sprang forward an hour on Sunday, the biannual Daylight Saving Time change. Readers do ...

Daylight saving time starts this Sunday. The lost hour of sleep increases workplace accidents and lowers productivity. Six ...

In the enclave of buildings that immediately surround the Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple in Tripunithura, one structure towers ...

Sadly, my grandparents are long gone, and I’m afraid I don’t know what happened to those clocks. They disappeared sometime ...