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It's tempting to think that, with our fancy electric lights and indoor bedrooms, humanity has evolved beyond the natural ...
Have you ever needed to instantly find out what time it is in Tokyo, Paris or Sydney? Perhaps you are on an important business call, you want to catch up with family or you are simply watching a live ...
Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson scored the game's lone goal in overtime to put the USA back on top, winning the nation's first gold medal at the event since 1933, ending a 92-year drought.
From space, the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a ...
Ball boys are everywhere on the court but are rarely seen or acknowledged. And yet, the NBA couldn't function without them.
Sen. Todd Young’s (R-Ind.) “ Make America Rested Again ” amendment, which would put the U.S. on permanent standard time, was ...
Do you regularly check the time? Discover how our modern obsession with the clock is closing our hearts and robbing us of joy ...
Starting in 1836, a former Royal Observatory employee named John Belville charged people an annual fee to use his pocket ...
The F4 joins a group of atomic clocks operated in only 10 other countries around the world and will help make the foundation of global time more stable and secure by helping distribute time via ...
Whether you find yourself glancing at a clock on the wall or checking your phone, the time you constantly see is the product of a meticulous system upheld by the world’s timekeepers. In the U.S., a ...
"Vladi and Greg used ingenuity and skill to restore the reliable, world-class operation of NIST's atomic fountains." NIST-F4 and a second fountain clock, NIST-F3, operate roughly 90% of the time ...
Now, with the run ending on May 11th, the thought of a Clockless life is like losing a favorite mechanical watch from our wrist, or like losing track of time ... is a world made to the clock ...