A clock for math whizzes
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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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This is a math problem that voters or hard drives can&#39;t solve. It sounds so simple, but in the 2004 college football season, three into two won&#39;t go.
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A chip the size of a fingernail and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second is unveiled by Intel.
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Isn't Napier the logarithm guy? Yes indeed. A man of varied  talents, he popularized the modern decimal point notation and argued  that the Pope of 1593 was the Antichrist.    And created one of the first devices to automate binary  arithmetic. Using nothing more than a chessboard and some counters, he  developed ways to multiply, divide and even find the square roots of  binary numbers.
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Why count in binary when you can use hundreds of different digits at once? That&#39;s the principle that has allowed British physicists to develop a video disk that stores far more data than has ever been possible before.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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In âWalk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,â fashion is the clock that helps the audience mark the time.
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A new "gas gauge" chip for laptop batteries provides much more accurate readouts of time left.
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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A look at three GUI front-ends for the LilyPond music notation software.
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Measuring the minute amount of energy needed to flip the magnetic orientation of a single atom brings researchers closer to making devices that represent bits of information with just a few atoms.
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All our devices, from cellphones and computers to satellites and dvrs, depend on super-precise timekeeping. Tour one building in Boulder, Colorado, and you'll see some of the key timekeepers in the world.
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A 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism -- with its intricate and baffling system of about 30 geared wheels -- has been an enigma.
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Scientists have pieced together how a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator was built, revealing an astounding level of craftsmanship for its time.
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 10--As the clock ticks toward 2 a.m. Sunday, when timekeeping in most of the country shifts to daylight-saving time, computer experts hope for a non-glitch switch.
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Plus: A new vulnerability in Windows XP, and Excel has trouble with math.
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday. It's the focus of IBM research published this week that could result in incredibly tiny computers.