20 million years to become a star: Cosmic clock unlocks mystery of sun’s birth time
By studying decay of bound-state beta decay of thallium-205 (205Tl81+), scientists can better understand the timing and ...
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When Rome’s fountains run dry
Climate change, waste, and inaction are putting Italy’s capital at risk of a water crisis that would threaten residents, ...
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Space travel: the health effects of space radiation and building a lunar GPS
Welsh’s ebook is called “ Space Radiation: Astrophysical origins, radiobiological effects and implications for space ...
Wall Street Journal: Trump’s win means it isn’t Iran’s Middle East anymore
News of Donald Trump’s victory sent the rial, Iran’s currency, to an all-time low. The party may be over for the Iranian ...
Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Accurate Clock. It Could Be a Turning Point for Humanity.
The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...
A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock
Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...
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Chemistry riddle: Lasers probe nuclear structure of elements to test periodic table’s limit
A team of scientists set out to probe some of the heaviest elements in the periodic table using an advanced form of laser ...
For the First Time Ever, Scientists Have Witnessed the Birth of a Heavy Atom
The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...
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Adtran’s Oscilloquartz high-performance optical cesium technology integrated in Swiss timescale infrastructure at METAS
Technology delivers unmatched accuracy and stability, directly contributing to UTC and enhancing global time synchronization ...
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Antiques Roadshow guest collapses into giggles as she discovers the HUGE value of 'scruffy' carriage clock that hasn't worked for 50-years
Giggling, she agreed the clock was indeed in a sorry state and ... that nobody in the family knew what it was, but after some online sleuthing were guessing it could be from Fiji.
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Daylight Saving Time Has Ended: Tips for Dealing With the 'Good' Time Change
With fall upon us and Halloween done and dusted for 2024, it's time to turn back our clocks. Get ready for darker afternoons and colder mornings -- the annual end of daylight saving time is here.
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Why this is a climate election—even if that hasn’t been apparent on the trail
The contortions required to knit electoral-college victory paths always make campaigns a lousy barometer of what presidents ...