In the fullness of time, I’ll get these beasts working, but progress is slow. I’ve never tried to make a mystery out of my work here, so I’ve increasingly found myself teaching clock repair ...

“This expansion of space means that our observations of the early universe should appear to be much slower than time flows today.” Astronomers have previously used supernovae as clocks to ...

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Entsoe, the European body representing electricity transmission operators across 25 countries, said bedside clocks “had slowed down by up to six minutes since mid-January”, reports the BBC.

Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages ...