Gallery: Inside America's Time Lab
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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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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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As I write this column, I'm flying from San  Francisco to New York City for three days of meetings at the American Museum of  Natural History on bringing the latest scientific data to the public via museums  and planetariums. I look forward to working with my colleagues. I'm also eager  to gaze again at their stunning collection of fossils and to travel to distant  locations in our universe at the Rose Center and the Hayden Planetarium, the  museum's digital planetarium. ...
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British physicists work on "clockwork" technology that promises, theoretically, billion-year accuracy.
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This human interest story describes a night in the life of scientists and engineers working 'round the clock to test NASA's next great space telescope.
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The quintessential American race hits the half-century mark. A look back through photos at its history and glory years
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A review of the Jonathan Saunders, Tuleh, Preen Ohne Titel, Diane Von Furstenberg and Rodnik Fall 2008 collections.
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A show at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents some odd (but fascinating) examples of serial photography.
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The newest Smithsonian museum is gathering ancient ceramics, intricate beadwork and modern art to illustrate the past and present of native peoples spread across the Western Hemisphere for some 20,000 years.
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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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It seemed so simple and familiar: Spring forward, fall back. For 20 years, that's what Americans -- and their technology -- have done with their clocks on the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October.
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Some physicists are creating a revolution in the arcane world of ultra-precise clocks. And among them is a researcher who has trouble getting anywhere on time. &quot;I do tend to be a little bit late,&quot; said Jim Bergquist, 58.
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Two physicistsÂ work provides a new twist in the mystery surrounding a group of small drip paintings discovered several years ago in a storage locker in Wainscott, N.Y.
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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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A new Âgas gaugeÂ chip for laptop batteries provide much more accurate readouts of time left.
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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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THE CANON: A WHIRLIGIG TOUR OF THE BEAUTIFUL BASICS OF  SCIENCE   Natalie Angier   Houghton Mifflin. 293 pp. $27.