No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States. Reading time 2 minutes The official standard time of the United ...

The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

When the sun rises on May 18 in the small Norwegian fishing village of Sommarøy, located above the Arctic Circle, it doesn’t set again until July 26. Later in the year, it vanishes from November until ...

In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time ...

Abstract: While in the past industrial robots were strictly separated from humans, today robots serve humans in a variety of industrial applications that also involve close or even physical ...

This official Microsoft Xbox controller is identical to the one that's bundled with the Xbox Series X and S console. Standard features include textured grips, hybrid D-pad, button mapping with the ...

Time passes by faster on Mars than on Earth. ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA, 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The question “What time is it on Mars?” is far ...