In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...

Sommarøy’s time-free zone was, in a sense, an attempt by residents to reclaim their connection to a more natural measure of time. After all, every year, the island experiences roughly 1,656 hours of ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

C compiler, LustreC, into a generator of both executable code and associated specification. Model-based design tools are ...

Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for ...