In 2026 they're going back by an hour at 02:00 on Sunday 25 October, and this is sometimes considered the ‘good one’, as you’ll have one hour more in bed. Image caption, Make the most of the extra ...

The twice-yearly ritual has roots in cost-cutting strategies of the late 19th century. A recent effort to end it has stalled in Congress. By Alan Yuhas Hello. You may be here to learn when daylight ...

The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

How have clocks and watches intertwined with our sense of time? When did they come to play central roles in our lives? To answer these questions, On Time from the National Museum of American History ...

The clock drawing test checks for early signs of dementia. Drawing a clock involves many skills, like attention and memory. The simplest way to score the test is to give one point for a correct ...

What time is it? It's bird o'clock! This unique timepiece is sure to delight, every hour on the hour. The Audubon Singing Bird Clocks have authentic recordings of 12 favorite North American songbirds ...

The last year has been tough on us — and our watches. With nowhere to go, we’ve had less need for our trusty timepieces, and have buckled them onto our wrists far less as a result. Instead, we’ve left ...

Europe looks to fight any forced shutdown of AI The US ban on Anthropic’s latest models turned an unlikely ‘kill switch’ into a much more likely one. Is a world of AI shutdowns on the horizon? What ...