Nearly two years after the first Worcester County Wonders hit the newsstands, more than 100 stories about historical figures, places, families and traditions across Central Massachusetts have graced ...

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Some New York City teachers say it’s high time for a refresher on old-fashioned clocks. Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones ...

When the Romans pushed over the Alps 2,000 years ago into the forested mountain range running through Germany's southwestern tip, they named it the silva nigra—black forest—after its moody glades of ...

In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time ...

The holidays at Walt Disney World are getting a star-powered boost. Latin music superstar Luis Fonsi has been announced as a celebrity narrator for the beloved Candlelight Processional at EPCOT, ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

Female lineages of European cuckoos lay eggs with colorful shells and intricate patterns specialized to deceive more than 100 avian hosts into fostering their chicks. Parasitic cuckoo eggshells show ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by laser-cooled atoms trapped in a repeating pattern of light interference ...

PORTSMOUTH — Tori Tucker is presently the envy of all her birdwatching friends. The Seacoast resident took a stroll Nov. 21 through South Cemetery, where she spotted a bird that didn’t appear local to ...