Atomic clocks leveraged the atom to keep time, but new innovations will use the nucleus itself.

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices use fluctuations in the energy ...

Perhaps your cell phone does a fine job waking you up in the morning, but an alarm clock is a superior device. By now, it’s common knowledge that using your phone at bedtime—or even sleeping near it, ...

Unlike smartphones or traditional alarm clocks that rely solely on sound to wake you up, sunrise alarm clocks mimic the coming of dawn, with ever-increasing amounts of light. Much like a traditional ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In an optical atomic clock (Fig. 1), the frequency of a laser is closely tuned to a very narrow transition line in an atomic, ...

Comtoise watches, as seen here in the Comtoise Museum of master watchmaker Bernd Deckert, are a French pendulum clock from the French region of Franch-Comte. While they are beautiful antiques, they ...