Researchers have demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

If you purchased or inherited a bulky grandfather clock, it should have the best possible location in your home. With these design and decor tips, it will.

The bridge rectifier was thrown out in favor of a much simpler 7805 regulator, and a new board was designed and sent off to OSHPark. Oh, how times have changed.

Time Information The majority of benefits-eligible employees utilize the negative time profile. Student and temporary employees often utilize the timesheet to record time or clock in and out via the ...

Rob Deal doesn't take any time at all when asked to name his biggest challenge as a fixer of grandfather clocks. "When someone who isn't experienced gets in and messes with it," he says. Indeed, … ...

A clock being built inside a Texas mountain can teach us a lesson about long-termism – designing things that will sustain us as much in fifty years’ time as they do now.

I have reinstated the alarm clock. An overlooked mechanism in today’s technologically-synced, your-phone-does-everything world, it tells the time, it wakes you up, it is decentralized from a ...

Word clocks, or a matrix of light-up letters that spell out the time, are a standard build for all enterprising electronics enthusiasts. The trouble is finding the right way to drive a matrix of ...

A man was paid as an archives director in Spain for a decade, but he reportedly would only clock in, leave and then return to clock out. He's been barred from government work for several years.

Physicists have demonstrated a compact atomic clock design that relies on cold rubidium atoms instead of the usual hot atoms, a switch that promises improved precision and stability.