Through the looking glass: Nearly three decades after its US patent date, the MP3 is no longer the cutting edge of audio compression. Yet support for it remains ubiquitous in media players, browsers, ...

PORTSMOUTH — Tori Tucker is presently the envy of all her birdwatching friends. The Seacoast resident took a stroll Nov. 21 through South Cemetery, where she spotted a bird that didn’t appear local to ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...

Mathias Malzieu: To have the character look like a porcelain doll but with human eyes, because I wanted to combine the fragility of human emotion with the fragility of a doll. So we tried to have the ...

While pumpkins, witches, and ghosts are already clogging up everything from grocery store aisles to suburban front lawns, it wouldn’t truly be spooky season without a controversy that combines a true ...

“Let's be more like Switzerland!” exclaimed one excited activist at the Lib-Dem conference this week. I had a momentary mental flash of the stunt-happy Sir Ed Davey flying out of a cuckoo clock ...

It's an interesting fact that despite being kissing cousins, clock makers and watch makers occupy very different positions in the world of timekeeping. There are hundreds of both around the globe but ...

Listen to bird sounds in nature – featuring the call of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). Chat GPT’s ‘last messages’ to teenager before he took his own life Bodycam footage of a July traffic stop ...

The latest version of the Google Clock app is rolling out now and includes loads of visual changes. These changes include distinct backgrounds for active alarms, larger buttons for the stopwatch, and ...

Back-to-school time requires parents to find ways to get their kids to school on time. Smart alarm clocks can be helpful tools to manage the morning rush. USA TODAY Shopping provides a list of alarm ...

George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...