I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.

A Raspberry Pi, an Adafruit 7-segment display, a 3D printed case, some vibe coding—and we've got a forever-clock that never ...

Jeff Bezos spent $42 million building a 10,000-year cuckoo clock that ticks once a year — calls it a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year’s vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed ...

You’re Not A ‘Morning Lark’ Or A ‘Night Owl’ — Here’s The Test That Reveals Your Real Chronotype, By A Psychologist

Chronotype isn't just morning lark or night owl: your body clock runs on three dials, not one. Take this quick, science-based ...
Salon

“The Tell” never told the whole story

Last week, news broke that Amy Griffin, author of the 2025 New York Times bestselling memoir “The Tell,” had filed a lawsuit against the anonymous former classmate who, last March, sued Griffin, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics

For decades, scientists have tried to build a device even more precise than an atomic clock, which keeps time using electrons, the negatively charged particles that whiz around in an atom. Now, two ...
Chicago Tribune

Chicago’s public clocks are the physical heartbeat of the city

One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...
Phys.org

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...
Science News

Clocks made from an atomic nucleus just ticked on for the first time

For the first time, scientists used an atomic nucleus as a clock. The world’s most precise timepieces are made using atoms, specifically their electrons. But clocks based on atomic nuclei — protons ...
The Atlantic

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

A few weeks ago, where I live in Johannesburg, a man ran a stop sign and crashed into my Subaru. At the scene he was frantic, unable to gather his thoughts. Half an hour later, I received a lengthy, ...
Hackaday

Voltmeter Clock Has The Time Dialled In

You could make a clock with three hands spinning about nested central shafts. If you did that, we probably wouldn’t publish it on Hackaday unless you really found a way to make it interesting. Make a ...
The Conversation

Using atomic nuclei could allow scientists to read time more precisely than ever – what this research could mean for future clocks

Most clocks, from wristwatches to the systems that run GPS and the internet, work by tracking regular, repeating motions. To build a clock, you need something that ticks in a perfectly repeatable way.
USA Today

Time.now Sets Its Clocks to Spanish: 500 Million New Users Can Now Tell Time in Their Language

Time.now has added full Spanish-language support across its platform, giving 500 million+ Spanish speakers access to localized clocks, time zone tools, sunrise and sunset data, eclipse calendars, and ...