Americans may be closer than they have been in years to ending the twice-yearly ritual of changing clocks. The U.S. House on July 14 passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, ...

A bill that would end the biannual tradition of changing clocks in the U.S. has passed its House committee. The next step will be a potential vote in the full chamber, a move that could pave the way ...

No more spring forward and fall back? It could be happening. A bill that would end the biannual tradition of changing clocks in the U.S. has passed its House committee. The next step will be a ...

What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny "mini universe" using 24,000 ultracold atoms and showed that the flow of time can ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: If your Friday night routine usually includes catching up on the week’s biggest political headlines with Bill Maher, you’ll have to hit pause for a few weeks. Real Time ...

Atomic clocks have been around for nearly 80 years, but their successors—nuclear clocks—are ready to take the stage. Two independent studies, both uploaded as preprints, report reliable timekeeping ...

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 ...

A University of Birmingham scientist has built a "mini-universe" that takes a step toward answering one of science's biggest questions: "What is time?" Publishing his findings in Physical Review ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story has been adjusted to clarify the nature of the Massachusetts bill to seek permanent standard time. A long-standing legislative push by 19 states to permanently eliminate the ...

A powerful molecular clock calibrated using data on gene activity from thousands of individuals can predict biological ageing in rodents, monkeys and humans — and time to death in people 1. “Even if ...