News articles tagged with 'time'
Brain's clock influenced by senses
— 21 Jan 2011 18:32 | HealthHumans use their senses to help keep track of short intervals of time according to new research, which suggests that our perception of time is not maintained by an internal body clock…
UCLA scientists teach cultured brain cells to keep time
— 16 Jun 2010 14:05 | HealthThe ability to tell time is fundamental to how humans interact with each other and the world. Timing plays an important role, for example, in our ability to recognise speech patterns…
A quick fix for queues
— 1 Jun 2010 20:36 | TechnologyQueuing, standing in line... it's what we do well, but complain about the most. Thankfully, science is coming to the rescue as researchers in Taiwan have devised a formula that could…
Time is money: SIM time network has far-reaching benefits
— 29 May 2010 13:45 | TechnologyClocks in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands are now ticking in unison thanks to the work of the Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM), a regional metrology organisation that…
Children use space to think about time
— 1 Apr 2010 10:48 | HealthTo probe the relationship between space and time in the developing mind, Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues…
From now on, 4 PTB primary atomic clocks will contribute to UTC
— 23 Dec 2009 12:47 | PhysicsThe world's best caesium atomic clocks control Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale on which the time zones used in everyday life are based. But also in navigation…
Using math to take the lag out of jet lag
— 19 Jun 2009 08:26 | BiologyResearchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Michigan have developed a software program that prescribes a regimen for avoiding jet lag using timed light exposure.…
Time is what we make of it
— 11 Feb 2009 10:20 | HealthAsk anyone working on a project, and the biggest complaint one hears is 'There's not enough time.' But instead of more time, maybe what they need is a change of perception…
Last minute auction acquisition
— 14 Apr 2008 12:13 | TechnologyAt an online state securities auction, a transaction worth about 100 million Euro is not a rarity. Computer experts from the Vienna University of Technology (TU) would like to improve…
Quantum logic clock rivals mercury ion as world's most accurate clock
— 6 Mar 2008 19:00 | PhysicsAn atomic clock that uses an aluminium atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single mercury…