Research scientist Corey Campbell and graduate research assistant Alex Radnaev make adjustments to optimize the overlap of laser beams used to cool trapped atoms. The work is part of a Georgia Tech research project aimed at developing an ultra-precise nuclear ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts have discovered that people look for a person in a crowd by scanning the crowd, moving from one face to the next with a set timing based on waves of ...

Philips has recently presented a stylish alarm clock with radio with voice messaging capabilities. The new gadget, Philips AJL305, offers recording of voice messages to family members, each matched with a dedicated mailbox. The new device also comes with slideshow ...

The San Francisco Company “Sharper Image” has developed the Waterdrop – an innovative clock and personal weather station. Besides some of the usual features, such as a weather forecast, and temperature and humidity readings, which are displayed on an illuminated ...

We know of sand clocks, water clocks, atomic clocks and sun clocks but how about a Moon Clock? The British designer Laura Williams created Aluna – a proposal for the world’s first tidal powered Moon Clock. The proposed gigantic sculpture ...

One of the most ancient time-keeping technologies known, water clocks were used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Babylonians, often for their ability to assist in astronomical and astrological predictions and less for their ability to measure the passing ...