As the clock ticked to the next second, she struck the cymbals together. This simple performance, titled 61/60, sought to ...

Lutetium clocks have achieved record accuracy and comparison precision, making them promising candidates for future time standards and measurements of gravity.

(Patcharin Saenlakon/iStockphoto/Getty Images) The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are much more ambitious in terms of precision, and ...

Comtoise watches, as seen here in the Comtoise Museum of master watchmaker Bernd Deckert, are a French pendulum clock from the French region of Franch-Comte. While they are beautiful antiques, they ...

The Doomsday Clock was reset to 89 seconds to midnight on Wednesday by scientists. The clock is a symbol to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world. Scientists have urged world ...

We say this word multiple times a day, but what does it really mean? Two linguists took the time to explain the fascinating origin of o'clock. Read on to learn what the o in o’clock stands for and how ...

A Cold War icon, the clock conveys scientists’ views on humankind’s risk of destroying itself. Its current setting: just 100 seconds to midnight. The Doomsday Clock, reset each January, remains at 100 ...

The face with no eyes silently keeps watch as the world moves below it. It stayed, unmoving, a sentinel frozen in time on a ...