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The nature of time has remained something that has fascinated humans since the dawn of time, and the first division of a day into smaller intervals. Many have wondered about how to split it as accurately as possible, whereas others have been wondering if the concept is derived from physical laws or not. Over the last... |
3 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives are made possible, and so much easier, by the precise control that we have over our mundane activities, such as eating, driving a car, or playing an instrument. All of these actions require precise timing and coordination, yet the mechanisms underlying this ability are ve... |
20 October 2009
21:11 GMT |
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Time measurement can be critical for some of us. There are moments when we need to know the exact number of days or hours in a certain period of time and it's easier for us when somebody, or, better said something, does that for us, like a complex calculator developed precisely for these tasks. eTimeInc Softwar... |
29 September 2009
01:36 GMT |
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Time Magazine has spoken, and with a loud and powerful voice we might add. Its previous lists from 2007 and 2008 previewed many of the web's biggest hits even before they were on top of the world, so this year's list was eagerly awaited. The list is comprised of 50 websites that Time Magazine editors think ... |
31 August 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Photographer Thomas Hawk and PDN Pulse reveal that Flickr might have deleted the photo due to a loophole in its copyright policy, but Mr. Hawk makes a strong case when accusing Flickr of being politically incorrect when it comes to favoring the recent United States president.The whole affair started when a Chicago na... |
28 August 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Ever since the early stages of human life on Earth, people have wanted to know more about all the things near them. But the years have passed, and soon the Earth was not enough, so they began to push the limits and look for the skies, in search of other planets. This is how the space age began. Since then, some peopl... |
16 July 2009
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has become a worldwide phenomenon, largely due to its solid gameplay, intricate stories and elaborate takes on the various times our society has gone through. For quite some time, Sam and Dan Houser, the founders of Rockstar, the company behind this franchise, have been associated with ... |
4 May 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The catch-phrase “there's not enough time” is probably very familiar to people working on various projects, as part of a team. The specter of the passing hours always looms over their heads, even if, in reality, they have more than sufficient time to complete their task. And this is where a new scien... |
11 February 2009
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Over the last half century, cesium 133 atomic clocks have been all the rage in time keeping. They were very reliable even when they first appeared, when they could be as accurate as not missing a single beat in 300 years. Over the years, and up until today, this precision has been considerably refined, in that a mode... |
9 February 2009
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Traveling back and forth in time has been a topic so widely spread, that there's hardly any possibility left uncovered by fiction. Books, comics, feature films and TV shows have all addressed the aspects of time travel, and have proposed various theories on how this can be accomplished. And it's not only th... |
23 January 2009
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Time is one of the serious magazines that are aware of the impact videogames have on today’s society. The publication has just outed a list of the Top Ten games of 2008.The best game of 2008 is Grand Theft Auto IV, the title published by Take Two and developed by Rockstar. Lev Grossman, who is in charge of... |
12 December 2008
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If you have a genius child who already knows everything and keeps pestering you with annoying questions like "How does Santa cover so much space in so little time?" or "How come he knows where everybody lives?" a North Carolina State University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Dr. Larry Silverberg, ... |
9 December 2008
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The most complex satellite ever built was almost compromised by an extremely tiny flaw in its design, which made the results very hard to read and less precise than needed. The Gravity Probe B, as the device was called, was launched in 2004 with the goal of proving some aspects of Einstein's general theory of re... |
21 October 2008
09:40 GMT |
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Given the different time zones on Earth, staying in touch with our friends from many miles away can sometimes be difficult. A solution for this problem would be having more clocks, instead of just one, all of them showing different times in various locations of the world.FoxClocks is a free Firefox extension created ... |
4 October 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Some people, even today, call this type of material bulletproof glass. The fact is that it is anything but bulletproof. By definition, this special type of glass is able to resist one or more rounds shot from a firearm before losing the properties that allow it to stop bullets. Its primary objective is not even to st... |
15 July 2008
08:57 GMT |
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What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation left behind by the light created when th... |
7 June 2008
05:49 GMT |
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National Institute for Standards and Technology researchers remain at the spearhead of atomic clocks design by creating what is known to be the most accurate time keeping device in the world. In 2004 NIST further enhanced atomic clocks by creating one on a chip a hundred times smaller than the previous atomic clock d... |
12 March 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Don't think that what you see in a porn movie is what will make your partner happy. But we must admit that many (especially) young men believe that great sex means sustaining sexual activity with their partner for at least one hour, when they have long passed the sense of boredom of what they're doing. But ... |
10 March 2008
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Daylight saving appeared originally in ancient times, but the first recorded proposal for the use of this convention came from Benjamin Franklin, during a visit in France, when he proposed that Parisians could make a more economic use of candles if they were to wake up earlier in the morning. In 1905, William Willett... |
5 March 2008
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How would we know when the winter comes, if it weren't for the seasons on Earth? One might say, well if there aren't any seasons, why would we even want to know such information? Let's say its kind of a mental exercise. The best way of finding out what season the Earth is in is by tracking the motion o... |
1 March 2008
06:40 GMT |
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The calendar gives us the temporal dimension. Without it, we could not register the succession of the events. Calendars use three main notions: week, month and year. The last two originated in the observation of the astronomic events (the phases of the Moon and the Sun). The week was, at its origins, just a division ... |
29 February 2008
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Some of the first atomic clocks were actually masers, commonly known as microwave lasers, that had additional equipments attached to them. Today, however, some of the most accurate atomic clocks work on the principle of atomic absorption spectroscopy of cold atoms. In fact, time is defined in the International System... |
8 February 2008
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I’ve often noticed that the feeds that I subscribed for didn’t reach me in time, so I wandered what might be the cause for this. Easy question to answer, the "fault" was Google’s, who indexed the posts quite late, with a difference of hours sometimes. Now, the Reader team has put together a tooltip to display the "pu... |
28 January 2008
03:48 GMT |
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The movements of the Earth and Moon determine the length of the years, seasons, months and days. People have observed the periodicity of the seasons and of the night sky stars patterns since prehistory. Ancient Egyptians knew that the Nile would overflow when the Sirius star raised over the line of the horizon. Some ... |
18 January 2008
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I'm not sure why I get this feeling of being happy whenever I find out about or catch Google doing something different than it should be, like last month's displaying a Christmas Recipe in the Sci-Fi section of its News, or today's time not accounting for the daylight savings in Buenos Aires. I guess i... |
4 January 2008
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Watching "Back into the Future", the movie that somehow changed my childhood's normal path, has had me searching for stories like this. Digital Inspiration has noticed a little something and has let the world know that you can send email and text messages to yourself in the future. The means to do it is to simpl... |
4 January 2008
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Time is relative, we all know that; as we do things that we enjoy, time seems to pass faster, but when we have a bad experience, it seems to take forever for time to pass. Albert Einstein proved in 1905 that this was not happening only in our mind, but time was truly relative and dependent on the speed at which an ob... |
12 November 2007
04:54 GMT |
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Have you ever used the time operator implement in Google Search? If not, then you should really do it when you're looking to find out the time in a certain region of the world because it works quite amazing. Moreover, the Mountain View company recently improved it although its representatives didn't mention... |
10 September 2007
03:27 GMT |
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Time traveling is being transferred from fiction to reality. A new time machine concept could accomplish an old dream mankind has always had, enabling future generations to travel into the past. The new approach is not based on exotic, theoretical forms of matter, but still requires technology that we do not have tod... |
21 August 2007
05:12 GMT |
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As you probably know, Google Maps is a web-based mapping solution that provides valuable traffic information that can help you find the best route to reach your destination. But sometimes, the users are criticizing the Google solution because the route or the time needed to reach the destination were not what they we... |
9 August 2007
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The more advanced the science, the more difficult puzzles emerge. Now, the shortest time intervals ever have been observed. Ferenc Krausz in his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, has managed to do this by using ultraviolet laser pulses to detect the absurdly brief quantum leaps o... |
31 July 2007
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A backward causality experiment is not really intended to explain time travel and its (im)probability, although this might be just a wonderful side-effect. Nonlocal quantum communication could instantly send information millions of light-years away and possibly even back in time.Quantum entanglement is once again ex... |
18 July 2007
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Yahoo was quite inaccessible in the recent period due to some unknown problems with most of its solutions. The users from every corner of the world said that Yahoo Messenger (both downloadable and web-based versions), Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search and even the entire portal worked very slow and sometimes they didn't ... |
10 July 2007
05:44 GMT |
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Google quietly introduced a new feature to its popular search engine, allowing you to find more relevant results. The new function included in the Advanced Search tab enables you to choose a certain date for the websites indexed by Google from 4 options: anytime, past 3 months, past 6 months and past year. Although t... |
20 June 2007
05:21 GMT |
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A group of researchers came up with a new, and in the same time old, method of searching for gravitational waves, using a mathematical model that hadn't be used for some time, in the hope of studying and accurately identifying an exotic kind of these gravitational waves.The gravitational wave is a fluctuation i... |
19 June 2007
10:23 GMT |
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The Big Bang is a cosmological model in which the universe has been expanding for around 13.7 billion years, starting from a tremendously dense and hot state, thought to be the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe. But what happened before the Big Bang? A logical thinking would produce the obvious... |
5 June 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Virtual tours offer tourists a recreated view of famous historical sites that are either inaccessible or have been damaged or destroyed over time. In some cases, this is the only way to travel in time and walk around mankind's greatest construction achievements.Technology from computer games, animation and arti... |
28 May 2007
05:09 GMT |
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Have you ever heard of magnets making noise? It's called the Barkhausen effect and it's a name given to the noise in the magnetic output of a ferromagnet when the magnetizing force applied to it is changed.It's easy for scientists to measure the minute thermal fluctuations in the magnetization of ferr... |
24 May 2007
09:24 GMT |
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A theoretical physicist is stating that a second dimension of time could help physicists better explain the laws of nature. Now, the dimension of time has an important role in describing matter, gravity and other forces of nature, but something doesn't fit.Einstein's theory of general relativity and the eq... |
16 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto had been nominated some time ago to appear in Time's top 100 most influential people of 2006 list. 1UP tracked the line of events closely, only to discover that Nintendo's designer did actually make the list. He is currently on the 92nd position and Time's Johnathan ... |
4 May 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Stephen William Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist, is about to experience weightlessness for a first period of 25 seconds today, although not in actual space, but in a simulated "free-fall" of a plane. The 65-year-old Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge is known for his contributions t... |
26 April 2007
08:48 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how do you know exactly what time it is?I know, you looked at your watch, but when you first bought it? From the news or the Internet, right? And where do they get it from?NIST-F1 is a cesium fountain atomic clock that serves as the United States' primary time and frequency standard and i... |
5 April 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Famous biologist J. B. S. Haldane once said that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we CAN suppose. To deal with the queerness factor, humans use time. And, you know what Albert Einstein said: "Everything is relative!". Including time. Care to disagree? If you do disagree, please remem... |
24 March 2007
08:01 GMT |
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Would you like to have the chance of taking advantage of all the missed opportunities of your youth?Only a time travel could fix it. It looks like fiction, but some scientists imagine this possibility."There are a handful of scenarios that theorists have suggested for how one might travel to the past," said Brian Gre... |
9 March 2007
07:23 GMT |
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