It’s unfortunate, then, that some clockmakers go unappreciated. Take 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, for example. By all accounts a bright student, Mohamed, seen in photographs sporting a NASA T-shirt, was ...

Adapted from "THE BELLS OF OLD TOKYO: Meditations on Time and a City" by Anna Sherman. Published by Picador August 13th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Anna Sherman. All ...

Last week the country got behind 14-year-old high school freshman Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested after bringing what he claimed was a homemade clock to school. Before long his story went viral and he ...

Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.

What if you could build a clock that would last for 10,000 years? A clock that would tick only once a year, bong once a century, and cuckoo once a millennium? A clock that would be a symbol of ...

We’ve seen a wide range of emotional responses regarding [Ahmed Mohamed]’s arrest this week for bringing a clock he built to school. No matter where you fall on the political scale, we can all agree ...

We’ve seen a wide range of emotional responses regarding [Ahmed Mohamed]’s arrest this week for bringing a clock he built to school. No matter where you fall on the political scale, we can all agree ...

There is an old tale of the chatterbox who, when asked for the time, responds with a complete set of instructions for how to build a clock. Or, as I once heard a wit describe an exchange with a ...

Nothing lasts forever, although some things seem to. Speeches at political conventions, the NBA play-offs and those fight scenes in the Matrix movies just go on and on and on. Sometimes life itself ...

Michael is a huge fan of JRPGs and fighting games that includes the Persona, Final Fantasy, and Guilty Gear franchises. He has worked as a journalist for a decade and has written for a number of ...

I don’t think it necessarily suggests — as the fellow in the video above believes — that Ahmed Mohamed brought his device to school last week specifically to provoke officials into just the sort of ...