The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled rhythm and marks the passing of each moment. What you rarely notice is the hidden cost ...

In an age where digital displays dominate our lives, a concerning educational gap has emerged: today's children are increasingly unable to read traditional analog clocks. According to a 2023 ...

In the video, shared by content creator John Seo, he holds up an analog clock and asks a group of high school students to ...

Graphic illustrating the difference in energy between running a quantum clock (left: a single electron hopping between two nanoscale regions) and reading the ticks of the clock (right). The energy ...

Quantum timekeeping is supposed to be the ultimate in efficiency, with tiny devices that tick using the rules of quantum mechanics instead of swinging pendulums or vibrating quartz. Yet new work on a ...

They just forgot that skill because they never used it, because they always pulled out their phone,” said Cheyenne Francis, ...

Scientists built a tiny clock from single-electron jumps to probe the true energy cost of quantum timekeeping. They discovered that reading the clock’s output requires vastly more energy than the ...