Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

If you don't like adjusting your clocks twice a year due to daylight savings time, then you're not going to like the latest news coming out of the science world. For the first time in history, world ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem "global catastrophe." The decades-old international ...

Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers ...

For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks because the planet is rotating faster than it used to. Its called a “negative leap second.” ...

Earth's changing spin is causing it to rotate slightly faster than before, which may lead to the subtraction a second from clocks around 2029. This phenomenon, while not catastrophic, is unprecedented ...

Inside a laboratory nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, amid a labyrinth of lenses, mirrors, and other optical machinery bolted to a vibration-resistant table, an apparatus resembling a ...