20
Apr
8 scientists named to TIME’s 100 influential people list
Science was well represented this year in the TIME 100 — find out which scientists were named among the most influential people of 2013.
20
Apr
8 scientists named to TIME’s 100 influential people list
Science was well represented this year in the TIME 100 — find out which scientists were named among the most influential people of 2013.
11
Jan
10
Jan
26
Nov
Subatomic particles have a fuzzy sense of time
Certain particles processes have a preferred direction of time when it comes to altering their charges.
11
Nov
Curiosity team switches from Mars time to Earth time
Being on the Martian clock, which changed every few days relative to Earth time, created a sense of chronic jet lag for NASA employees.
29
Jun
Leap second will make time stand still this weekend
The added second can even be heard as an extra tick by tuning to a shortwave time signal station on a radio.
11
May
Is your alarm clock making you fat?
Researchers say that ‘social jetlag’ is the source of some sleep woes, as our bodies respond to indoor and outdoor light differently, fooling our body clocks.
05
May
How the human mind warps time
Time has a slippery nature in our minds. Sometimes it flows quickly. In other situations, it trickles at an unbearably slow pace.
17
Jan
Is time running out for the ‘leap second’?
World leaders will vote this week on whether to scrap the leap second, which for 40 years has kept atomic clocks synched with the solar day.
05
Jan
Pentagon-backed ‘time cloak’ stops the clock
The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen.
