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Time pressure is bad for your health- but the answer may be right outside your door.
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Feelings of “time scarcity” are on the rise, but research shows that natural surroundings can help us to slow down.
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2024 is a leap year, when the shortest month mops up a bit of leftover time. But the extra day also tells us about space – and our place in it.
Leap Day is coming.
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Humans have synced their calendars to the sun and moon for centuries, but every so often, these systems need a little correction.
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The 24-hour system was independently invented multiple times.
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Technology is changing our perception of what time is for.
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We use space to understand the passage of time, but don’t assume everyone thinks of the future as in front and the past as behind.
If traveling into the past is possible, one way to do it might be sending people through tunnels in space.
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Scientists are trying to figure out if time travel is even theoretically possible. If it is, it looks like it would take a whole lot more knowledge and resources than humans have now to do it.
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Time’s elasticity is part of how we process it.
By studying how much time is globally devoted to certain activities, a picture emerges of how we collectively use time.
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Combining different approaches to time use presents an interdisciplinary picture of what the global human day looks like.
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MDMA and cocaine are known to speed up people’s perception of time, while LSD can induce a sense of timelessness.
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Time is, after all, at the heart of climate narratives.
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Some time measurements, like months and years, use the movements of the moon and sun, respectively. But other time measurements, like the hour, aren’t clearly connected to astronomical phenomena.
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Our findings suggest lockdown made it harder for us to accurately remember when significant events happened.
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Edwina Preston reflects on the lost art of hanging out – which feeds creativity – and the need to reclaim time from the pressures of productivity. She draws on new books by Jenny Odell and Sheila Liming.
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Beatriz Flamini may have set a new record for longest voluntary isolation.
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The key to understanding why life is not explainable in current physics may be to reconsider our notions of time and information.
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In an update of one of the most famous experiments in physics, scientists have used ‘slits in time’ to explore the properties of light and ultrafast optical materials.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
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Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
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Physics makes a lot of assumptions about time that may be getting in the way of understanding the fourth dimension.