Resembling a squat, wide fridge, the world's most accurate clock went on sale for $3.3 million in Japan on Wednesday. The "Aether clock OC 020" is so precise that it would take 10 billion years for it ...

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands ...

Time zones are a complicated but necessary evil. Humans like the numbers on the clock to vaguely match up with what the sun is doing in the sky outside. To that end, different places in the world keep ...

Custodian Ray Keen inspects a clock face. A new study says world clocks will need a "negative leap second" to stay accurate. (Charlie Riedel/AP) ...