One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...

The 2026 World Cup is set to kick-off on Thursday with Mexico opening the tournament against South Africa at the Azteca Stadium, with the events dominating the sporting landscape for the next month.

When a match ends in a draw in the single-elimination phase of a soccer tournament, an additional 30 minutes of play are ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan Vaes, upon receiving the prestigious Francqui Prize for young scientists from the hands of Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, took the opportunity to tell Her ...

First dreamed up decades ago, the world's first nuclear clocks are set to improve quickly, becoming more precise and aiding the hunt for dark matter.

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...

Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...