The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the ...

It’s Friday, which means I have to wind up the clock on the wall. It’s my wife’s clock. She brought it from Poland, where it had originally been her paternal grandmother’s who lived with them when my ...

In 1947, just two years after the end of WWII, a group of Manhattan Project scientists, including Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, created the Doomsday Clock. It’s a metaphor, not a prediction, ...