(Nanowerk News) Living organisms monitor time – and react to it – in many different ways, from detecting light and sound in microseconds to responding physiologically in pre-programmed ways, via their ...

WINTHROP, N.Y. – Above an auto garage in this town near the Canadian border, there is a large gilt clock dial from a different era. Behind its facade, there lies a clock mechanism comprising an ...

Traditional mechanical clockmaking is an art that despite being almost the archetype of precision engineering skill, appears rarely in our world of hardware hackers. That’s because making a clock ...

If the origins of life are to be recapitulated, any number of natural cellular innovations will have to be reenacted in the artificial cells built by scientists. One of these innovations, an enzyme ...

Researchers have discovered a 'clockwork' mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. They report how a small signaling molecule starts the 'clock', which informs the cell about the right time ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The historic clocktower in Riverfront Park stretches 155 feet into the Spokane Skyline, coolly keeping time as the city wakes and sleeps. It was the centerpiece of the Great Northern ...

Hi. I have been a longtime subscriber and I am interested in asking a question to your Technically Speaking staff. I have a 1967 Corvette and the clock will only work when I tap the face of the clock.

FRANKFURT, Germany — There were a number of fine examples of German automotive engineering available for rent at reasonable prices at Frankfurt Airport, and the clerk at Sixt gave me her favorite. It ...

Opening new doors for the development of nanotechnologies in medicine and other fields, scientists recreate and compare two natural mechanisms to better program the timescale of molecular ...

Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have discovered a "clockwork" mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. In two publications, in "Nature Communications" und "PNAS", ...