At this price, kids better not be late for class. The city Department of Education is spending millions of dollars on electrical upgrades that include synchronized clocks. At one of many schools to ...

"Let's synchronize our watches." It's the classic line before a group goes out on a mission. We are all familiar with the concept of synchronized clocks -- less known, but equally important, is that ...

When the chapel bell strikes 10 o'clock, and Joe Yardling jumps up from Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" to realize that his new Elgin watch is apparently ten minutes slow, and that he is exactly ten ...

The push to keep large, complex production lines working at high speeds requires technologies that tightly control timing. In many high performance environments, synchronization is as important as ...

Wi-Fi is an obvious candidate for connecting almost any device that can be plugged into a wall, because it’s already running in nearly every home that has broadband. But can all those products work in ...

Many organisms exhibit circadian rhythms—internal biological clocks that regulate daily changes in metabolism, physiology, and behavior. But from fungus to fruit flies to humans, no common clock genes ...