Ů��С��Ƶ

Skip to content

2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel

Culture

Space

Why it's taking a century to pin down the speed of the universe

News

Across the universe. Traveling in space. Time travel. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.; Shutterstock ID 200832383; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Physics

Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

Culture

Time glitch concept. Hypnotising watch on a chain swinging above clouds.; Shutterstock ID 1121133503; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Comment

'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

Culture

2T1GT7B Artwork of Accelerating Universe

Physics

How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds

Comment

Physics

Why physicists keep trying to get rid of space-time entirely

Comment

John Harrison marine timekeeper at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Video

The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory

Video

Space

Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction

News

Qubit, abstract illustration.

Physics

Space could emerge from time

News

Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio.

Video

Ruth Belville: How the Greenwich Time Lady kept London ticking

In the 1800's the Greenwich Time Lady would take her stopwatch to the Royal Observatory, then travel all over London so her clients could synchronise their timepieces with hers

Video

Technology

The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

Features

Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

News

Mind

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier than they did

News

Space

The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion

Features