There's research showing that too much light at night and not enough daylight is taking years off our lives. NPR health correspondent Will Stone has tips to tune up your body's internal clock. This ...

Disruptions to your circadian rhythm (your body’s internal clock) are tied to higher risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease, according to a new scientific ...

I hadn’t realized that Daylight Saving Time was ending already until I turned the page of my day planner to November. There it was. At this writing it has been about ten days, and I’m still getting ...

Scientists built a tiny clock from single-electron jumps to probe the true energy cost of quantum timekeeping. They discovered that reading the clock’s output requires vastly more energy than the ...

Quantum technologies—devices that operate according to quantum mechanical principles—promise to bring users some groundbreaking innovations in whichever context they appear. Ironically, the same ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of measurement itself. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists ...