Daylight Savings Time. Most of us in Australia, save for Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, have been practising this semi-annual time change for as long as we can remember. More summer light and theoretically less power consumption. But is it really so great? More »
That hunk of metal to the right is the world’s most accurate clock, say people with more knowledge of time and atomic clocks than anyone else. More »
Science decided to be unfun this morning. Physicists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology demonstrated that a single photon cannot be accelerated beyond the speed of light. This implies that faster-than-light time travel is impossible. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU… More »
Time Magazine has just joined the New York Times in its paywall-erecting ways. Subscribers will soon be offered “all-access” plans that cover the bases from print to mobile and web. Non-subscribers will be locked out for three months. More »
