How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is ...

Over the past decades, physicists have been trying to develop increasingly sophisticated and precise clocks to reliably ...

Meanwhile, if you’ve come up with a fun and innovative way to tell time, be sure to let us know on the tipsline! [Thanks to Maarten Tromp for the tip!] Posted in clock hacks Tagged clock , e ...

There are 1,440 minutes in a day, so Poem/1 needs to display 1,440 unique poems to work. The clock features a monochrome e-paper screen and pulls its poetry rhymes via Wi-Fi from a central server ...

A top scientist has proposed a new way to reconcile the two different ways that our clocks keep time. Meet — wait for it — the leap minute. By Matt Richtel Later this month, delegations from ...