The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the microwave frequencies of the cesium clocks which are generating the second at ...

Major League Baseball's competition committee is weighing a proposal that would reduce the pitch clock with runners on base from 20 seconds to 18 next season, aiming to reverse a late-season trend ...

MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark said Saturday that the decision to decrease the pitch clock with runners on base by two seconds came too soon. "That's a conversation that should ...

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

On December 31, 2005 a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, ...

On Jan. 28, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, highlighting an encroaching closeness to "global catastrophe." By moving closer to the metaphorical midnight on the Doomsday Clock, ...

The Eagles are full of interesting ideas this offseason. They proposed to add the No. 0 back into rotation for player jerseys, they submitted a fourth-and-20 option for an offense to try after scoring ...

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Baseball romantics always make such a fuss about how there is no clock in baseball, so the game is eternal or something and the team behind always has a chance. This is literally true, of course, but, ...

The 2023 Doomsday Clock on display before a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists event on January 24, 2023. The Bulletin has been setting the clock since 1947 based on analysis of threats facing humans ...