That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum ...

For now, this technical skirting of the Second Law of Thermodynamics is only theoretical. However, the authors note that this ...

“We just let them go,” his wife, Pauline, said. The weirdest clock Geraci has worked on is the Ignatz Flying Pendulum clock. The string-wound clock was notorious for being bad at keeping time.

How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is ...

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...