FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock might not lose a thousandth of one in a decade.

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Today most electric clocks or watches measure the steady vibrations of quartz crystals. But even the best pacemakers drift; in one form or another, creeping chaos eventually corrupts the order of ...

Dr Kenneth Dyar, a circadian biologist from Helmholtz Munich, who helped design the study, added: “We all have an internal biological clock which determines our chronotype - whether ... The study has ...

Sunrise alarm clocks mimic the gradually brightening light of the sun to ease you out of sleep. Think of it as a biological hack. “We evolved to align our sleep-wake cycles with the sun ...

As convenient as it might be to use your phone as an alarm clock, standalone alarm clocks come with all kinds of features that can make waking up — or even going to sleep — a little less painful.

A rising contender for the development of ultra-precise nuclear optical clocks is the nuclear first-excited state of 229 Th isotope. Its long half-life of 10 3 seconds and low excitation energy of ...

UK residents are getting ready to welcome winter 2024 and welcome in the colder and darker months - so when do the clocks go back? Here's the date and details you need. A process British people ...

There are rising cases of breast, colorectal and other cancers in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. What is going on?

according to a study published in The Lancet. The new study by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project is the first global analysis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR ...

Fall approaches, and here’s when it is and when you need to change your clocks. Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 3. Minnesotans will have to set their clocks back one hour on that day. Not ...