Why Are Clocks More Accurate The Hotter They Are?
Time is a funny thing, and measuring time can get pretty wild too. The proof is a study out of the UK that finds clocks that use more energy, and give off more heat, are also more accurate.
You Can Learn A Lot About Time If You Hang Out In A Cave Away From The Sun
Fifteen people just took part in the Deep Time project, where they lived in a cave in France as far away from time as we can get. And some interesting things happened.
For A Person Who’s Hiding Something, Time Slows Down
A new study from researchers at Aoyama Gakuin University and Osaka University finds that something interesting happens when we’re trying not to reveal something: our perception of time slows down.
An Art Project Is Taking Photos Over A Thousand Years
Sometimes it's good to rethink how we understand time, like Tahoe Timescape, a project to take photographs over one thousand years.
How Do Time Zones Work At Earth’s Poles?
Time is an odd thing no matter where you are, but it's especially weird at the North and South Poles, since all the world's time zones sort of converge there and a day as we know it lasts an entire year.
What Time Was Like Before Time Zones
November 18, 1883 is when railroads across the United States adopted a uniform system of time, more or less getting all of us in sync with each other. But what was time like before then?
And Then One Day You Find 10,000 Years Have Got Behind You
A project to build a clock that will run for 10,000 years got us thinking about how we measure time - and amazingly, 10,000 years is more time than has passed since the invention of hours, minutes and seconds.