Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...

New York City’s statewide school cellphone ban has exposed an unexpected gap, with teachers saying many teenagers cannot read ...

Quantum timekeeping is supposed to be the ultimate in efficiency, with tiny devices that tick using the rules of quantum mechanics instead of swinging pendulums or vibrating quartz. Yet new work on a ...

Scientists built a tiny clock from single-electron jumps to probe the true energy cost of quantum timekeeping. They discovered that reading the clock’s output requires vastly more energy than the ...

Time may be up for analogue clocks as more and more students are unable to read them, resulting in many UK schools replacing them with digital clocks. The change comes due to GCSE and A-Level students ...

They just forgot that skill because they never used it, because they always pulled out their phone,” said Cheyenne Francis, ...