We are often warned against sleeping with our phones anywhere near us – both for health reasons as well as the effect of blue light on our sleeping pattern – and a wake-up alarm clock offers ...

Most people in the United States must change the time of their clocks twice a year, specifically on the second Sunday in March, when daylight saving time begins, and on the first Sunday in ...

Daylight saving time primarily serves our desire to maximize sunlight. Setting our clocks an hour ahead gives us a bit more afternoon light, but also means the sun rises an hour earlier in the ...

The machine, called a cesium fountain clock, was in the middle of a two-week measurement run at a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research facility in Boulder, Colo., ...

If some lawmakers (and President Donald Trump) have their way, this could be the last time we change the clocks, too. Trump didn’t clarify which side of the clock he’s on, but recent pushes ...

Work crews grind up railroad ties near a business park and neighborhood in North Lawndale. Neighbors complain about the odors and the dust. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Wilfred Dowdell ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — A farm property that served as a documented Underground Railroad site and as a pivotal location in the Civil War battle will be opening to the public. For the first time in over ...

Now, one of the locomotives used to pull that train is undergoing a massive restoration at the B&O Railroad Museum. The American Freedom Train was pulled by three steam locomotives ...

Now, one of the locomotives used to pull that train is undergoing a massive restoration at the B&O Railroad Museum. The American Freedom Train was pulled by three steam locomotives: One of them is ...

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