Time
Scientists Invent ‘Quantum Watch’, a Mind-Bending New Way to Measure Time
The quantum watch is "fully quantum mechanical in its nature" and "effectively has no sources of systematic error," scientists say.
Scientists Break the Direction of Time Down to the Cellular Level in Mind-Bending Study
A new study looks at interactions between microscopic neurons in salamanders to understand how the "arrow of time" is biologically generated.
Quantum Scientists Create New Phase of Matter With Two Time Dimensions
A new approach "effectively lets us squash two time-dimensions into a single time direction" and make quantum qubits more stable, scientists say.
Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever
Scientists were able to measure time dilation at a distance of just a millimeter, about the width of a pencil tip.
Fortnite Nerfs Martin Luther King Jr.
Epic Games and TIME Magazine have collaborated to create an interactive museum that whitewashes King's legacy.
Scientists Created a Quantum Crystal That Will Search for Dark Matter
Scientists harnessed quantum entanglement and time reversal in a crystal that could solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries.
NASA's New Atomic Clock Can Revolutionize Deep Space Exploration
The Deep Space Atomic Clock, the first device of its kind to be tested in space, is a major step toward autonomous navigation across the solar system.
Scientists Discover 'Time Cells' In the Brain That Enable 'Mental Time Travel'
A new experiment probed how the human brain encodes and processes the flow of time.
15 People Lived 40 Days in a Sunless Cave Without Clocks to Study Time
Participants lost their sense of time as the weeks passed during the multidisciplinary 'Deep Time' project, which studied human adaptation in extreme circumstances.
This Is the Year That Time Lost All Meaning
How our relationship to time in 2020 has affected the way we consume pop culture.
Scientists Clocked the Shortest Time Period Ever: 247 'Zeptoseconds'
Researchers in Germany measured the time it took for a light particle to dislodge two electrons within the same molecule—the fastest event ever recorded.
‘Time’ Captures the Devastating Losses Caused By Mass Incarceration
Garrett Bradley's new documentary follows Sibil ‘Fox Rich’ Richardson as she fights for the release of her incarcerated husband, illuminating one of the 2.3 million faces behind America's prison industrial complex.