The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

The history of clocks is a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the pursuit of precision. Explore how ancient civilizations began measuring time and how this led to the creation of the first true ...

How often do you use your car's clock to let you know how late you are for work? Have you ever been in a rental car and spent more than a few seconds trying to figure out where the heck they hid ...

Or none. History of telling time. Until relatively recently, time in the non-clock world was delineated not by hours and minutes but by natural events.

The clock was designed by local NASA engineers and built by local NASA technicians in 1969, and first used at the Apollo 12 launch. But now the digital countdown timer, which ticked off NASA’s ...

The clock in Olomouc may have many more faces yet to come. Its beauty may be rediscovered, transformed, and lost again and again. But the mechanical core has remained constant for hundreds of years.

Benjamin Franklin first called for the government to tinker with clock hours in the 1780s. But it wasn't until World War I that the U.S. adopted daylight-saving time as a way to squeeze more out ...

but the enormous clock has a storied history. SO 100 YEARS AGO, COLGATE MOVED INTO THIS FACILITY AND BROUGHT THIS CLOCK FROM NEW JERSEY. AND IT STARTED THE LIGHT MANUFACTURING AREA AND TRANSFORMED ...

He has spent years studying the history of Seattle's clocks. “The biggest surprise for me was to learn that Seattle had a clockmaker of its own.” The clockmaker was named Joseph Mayer.