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Computational tool maps the dance of circadian synchrony

What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...
Interesting Engineering

Brutal 125 mph gusts triggered rare power failure at US atomic clock facility

A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Some of the World’s Atomic Clocks Were Off Last Week (by 5-Millionths of a Second)

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

Sex hormones reset our body clocks, research reveals

Disruptions to our circadian clocks—the internal molecular timekeepers "ticking" in nearly every cell of our body throughout ...

Key brain cell 'hubs' found to synchronize the body's internal clock

What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...
Morning Overview on MSN

SETI tunes twinkling pulsars to sync cosmic clocks and chase ET

Pulsars are some of the most reliable metronomes in the universe, and scientists are now using their flickering radio beams to keep time across the galaxy and sharpen the search for intelligent life.
TechCrunch

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Algorithms of misperception: Managing nuclear risk in an AI world

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...
Business Wire

Vartis Space Unveils “Vartis Space Clock” — An Open-Source Framework for Independent Deep-Space Time Synchronization

The Vartis Space Clock represents an early but critical milestone in establishing a new temporal infrastructure for deep-space missions. By providing a method to align “zero-time points” that ...
NPR

To optimize health, sync your habits with your body clock. Here's how

With darker days ahead after winding back our clocks, one strategy for better health is to align your daily habits, like sleep and meals, with your body's clock. Most of us are now back to standard ...