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From sundials to atomic clocks, a journey through the way humans have measured time.
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A podcast on time: telling it, perceiving it, doing it and travelling through it.
DeLillo’s latest novel dwells on the implications of accelerating technology – including the practice of freezing dead bodies in the hope that one day, they could become immortal.
It involves shifting calendars, greedy governments – and the Pope.
We will get an ‘extra’ day this year, February 29. Where do these quadrennial liberties with our calendar originate?
It is possible – with just a couple of awkward provisos.
Without them, June would soon fall in winter.
It’s all relative – why scientists understand time in a completely different way.
The molecular clock is helping us deepen our knowledge of evolution and completing the tree of life. But how does it actually work?
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
While few will dispute that a minute comprises 60 seconds, the perception of time can vary dramatically from person to person and from one situation to the next. Time can race, or it can drag.
Keeping time isn’t easy, particularly as the Earth’s rotation is slowing down, so we need to keep adding troublesome leap seconds.
The genetics behind sporting ability are getting more complicated all the time - so don’t waste your money on online tests.
Most people would feel they can count on one day comprising the same number of hours, minutes and seconds as the next. But this isn’t always the case – June 30 will be a second longer in 2015 with the…
The Theory of Everything is a film about two people who meet at university and fall in love. But what makes it remarkable is that one of them is Professor Stephen Hawking and that when he and Jane Wilde…
We are curious about time. It holds us in a state of wonder, of anticipation for the future. The ability to categorise the past - history - and think about the future - planning - is a basic element of…
Daylight saving time ends this weekend in most states and territories (barring Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory), meaning we’ll turn our clocks back by one hour on Sunday morning…
Research by the University of East Anglia has found that despite increasing globalisation, international time differences…
Right now if you want to know where you are, your smartphone map will tell you instantly. But these technologies only exist because of the efforts of 18th century geographers, explorers, astronomers and…
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Marketing, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Law, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
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Senior Lecturer in History, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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George Daniels Professor of Scientific Instrumentation, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Social Geography, Keele University
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Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Gifford Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
