Time-telling with clocks—and mechanical clocks in particular—has played a significant role in the development and shaping of human societies and the growth of industry. And, for good reason, people ...

A family heirloom, a Seth Thomas clock acquired during the Depression, reveals how antique values can fluctuate dramatically ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum timepiece ...

By replacing single atoms with an entangled pair of ions, physicists in Germany have demonstrated unprecedented stability in ...