In government hiring, veterans’ preference is badly structured compensation that also fails on policy grounds.

Is the summer slump real? If so, should more districts consider year-round school? The summer slump (or summer slide) is ...

Is daylight saving time close to becoming permanent year-round? For now, the answer is yes, the clocks and time changes are still happening in 2026. But this could eventually change. Some are ...

For decades, scientists have tried to build a device even more precise than an atomic clock, which keeps time using electrons, the negatively charged particles that whiz around in an atom. Now, two ...

The clock debate pops up every year as Americans ask the same question: Are we still changing clocks — or is daylight saving time about to disappear? Here's when and what to know about this year's ...

Atomic clocks have been around for nearly 80 years, but their successors—nuclear clocks—are ready to take the stage. Two independent studies, both uploaded as preprints, report reliable timekeeping ...

Overture Games, an after-school program used in several Chicago schools and youth centers, relies on old-school paper and pencil to teach students AI skills. But as AI education lags in elementary ...

One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...

Test your math skills against the clock! Watch as participants race to solve equations. Fun and educational! GOP blocks Schumer's effort to ground taxpayer funding for Trump's Qatari Air Force One ...

A University of Birmingham scientist has built a "mini-universe" that takes a step toward answering one of science's biggest questions: "What is time?" Publishing his findings in Physical Review ...

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...