How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade
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At NIST's Time and Frequency lab in Colorado, scientists build precision clocks from elements like mercury and ytterbium. The instruments harness general relativity to detect a range of conditions and situations, from heart defects to subterranean oil fields. Just don't ask them what time it is.
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A couple of UC Riverside physicists stabilize antimatter for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds, and the result is an ultrapowerful laser.
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By THE RECORD'S STAFF  It's not exactly Y2K, but when daylight-saving time starts next month, beware of computer glitches.  That's because clocks will spring forward an hour on the second Sunday in March, three weeks earlier than usual.
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These devices will need some help springing forward with daylight-saving time, which comes three weeks early this year.
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A quote by Albert Einstein was hung from the German chancellery to mark 100 years since he made the first of his scientific discoveries that would change the world.
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As you spring forward this year, brace yourself for a software glitch that could affect computers, digital watches and clocks. By the Associated Press.
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A team of Washington scientists are pioneering the concept of the Mag-beam as a technology that could significantly shorten the time it takes to travel to other planets. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Setting the clocks ahead comes early this year. Are your gadgets and applications ready to spring forward?
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The massive earthquake that triggered  the Asian tsunami wobbled the earth on its axis, forced  cartographers back to the drawing board and changed time by a  fraction, but there's no need to adjust your clocks.
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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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Blog: James Hansen and other scientists say we have ten years to act, or else.
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The 21st century promises to be the most innovative yet.
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The new DST (daylight-saving time) is drawing near. Do you think you're ready? Run down this checklist to be sure.
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Ten thinkers and scientists that could change the world.
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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A British chemist bases his table on the established atomic weight of each element. He doesn't get everything right, but he's in the ballpark.
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The ammonia and crystalline ice would be destroyed in about 10 million years,&quot; Jewitt says. &quot;This implies Quaoar gets recoated on that time scale or faster.