BIOENGINEER

The Liver Keeps Its Own Clock: Late-Night Meals Linked to Fatty Liver Disease and Cirrhosis

A large analysis of nearly 200,000 health professionals found that people who reported eating late at night had a 20 to 30 ...
Press Trust of India on MSN

Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronised with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why

Los Angeles, Oct 10 (The Conversation) You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during a leap year ...
Tech Times

Rival Teams Build First Nuclear Clocks, Then Immediately Search for Dark Matter

Nuclear clock technology made history as two independent teams -- Vienna’s TU Wien and Beijing’s Tsinghua University -- ...

Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why

If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even ...

Leap seconds help keep clocks synchronized, but their time may be over

If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even ...
BIOENGINEER

Chip-Sized Light Rulers Could Carry Atomic Clock Precision Out of the Lab

University of Auckland and US researchers have demonstrated a self-aligned chip-scale optical frequency comb generated by two ...

Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks

Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in ...
NewswiseOpinion

‘Fall Back’ Should Be the Last Clock Change, Sleep Experts Tell Lawmakers

Ahead of the "fall back" time change on Nov. 1, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Coalition for Permanent ...
InfoQ

Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software

Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a ...

US wants to stop changing clocks but is divided over which time to keep

While there is broad support for ending time changes, there is far less agreement over what should replace them, a division ...

Ending clock changes? Health evidence favors permanent standard time over daylight saving

Several Canadian jurisdictions are moving toward ending the twice-yearly clock change, but a new analysis published in ...
Animals Around the Globe

7 Marine Species That Synchronize Spawning With the Moon

Animals Around The Globe is a travel platform focused on wildlife and unique destinations, where you can discover all your favourite animal encounters.