Mechanical clocks first appeared in northern Italy in the 13th century, following earlier methods of timekeeping like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now that 2026 is officially underway, we’re only a few short weeks away from gaining more of that precious daylight. Although it ...

At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock ...

Time crystals are an oddity of quantum physics, but new calculations show that these bizarre materials could be useful for building very accurate clocks. All crystals are defined by repetition – ...

(NEXSTAR) – We’re only just finishing the first month of 2026, and already several states are hoping to make this the year they stop changing the clocks for daylight saving time. Your clocks will ...

The sun is setting later and the days are growing longer, a sign that that the clocks are about to spring forward an hour for the time change. Here's when and what to know about the start and end of ...

Daylight saving time is almost here. Clocks across most of the United States will soon spring forward one hour, shifting an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. The change arrives as days ...

Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a worldwide "failure of leadership," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

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The 2026 Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight, signaling humanity edging to the "closest it has ever been to catastrophe" according to the Atomic Scientists, and the human race destroying ...

Later sunsets and longer days are a sign that that the clocks will spring forward soon for the time change. Here's when, and what to know about daylight saving time 2026 start and end and whether we ...

Daylight saving time in 2026 will begin on Sunday, March 8, when clocks "spring forward" an hour. Most states observe Daylight Saving Time, with the exceptions of Hawaii and most of Arizona. Despite ...