UK timekeepers get very precise
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British physicists work on "clockwork" technology that promises, theoretically, billion-year accuracy.
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Einstein, Plato and other big thinkers grappled with the concept of time. Now it's your turn. In the Wired Wiki.
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Review Waitrose's QuickCheck scanner a real time-saver
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A new Âgas gaugeÂ chip for laptop batteries provide much more accurate readouts of time left.
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This analog clock has a twist: the only number appearing on the clock face is nine, but it's calibrated correctly once you do the math.
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Atomic clocks may be headed into cell phones, thanks to a breakthrough by federal researchers. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the heart of an atomic clock
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Why surveillance is rampant in the UK and who is watching what you do
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It's not just cell phones taking advantage of a time standard. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., sends out a radio signal that any properly equipped device in much of North America can pick up and use to set itself to the proper time.
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High-shutter-speed photography has come a long way from Muybridge's galloping horse in 1887 and even from Edgerton's strobe work in the 1950s and '60s. Milliseconds are an eternity compared to the attosecond images of electron drift we see today, if you get our drift.
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This weekend's early switch to daylight-saving time was billed as a little re-enactment of the Y2K computer problem at the turn of the millennium. And as it happened, the daylight bug appeared to have equally minor results.
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One phone call and one letter can set the record straight.
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EU investigation closes in The Bank of England told HM Treasury about the secret US surveillance of international banking transactions as long as five years ago.â¦
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Miniaturization advance could lead to highly precise atomic clocks being installed in cell phones and other consumer devices.
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The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin's new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.
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Hereâs an apt attraction for the start of the new year: âThe Art of Timeâ at the Metropolitan Museum, a wonderful presentation of about 90 European timepieces from the museumâs permanent collection.
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A spacey looking planetarium opens in Greenwich, U.K., home of GMT and John Harrison, who founded the longitudinal system in 1773. The bronze structure aligns with the North Star and houses one of the world's most advanced digital laser projectors.
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British team won the gold medal for the men&#39;s 4x100m relay final with a time of 38.07 seconds at the Athens Olympics in Greece, Aug. 28, 2004.