The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say.

In 1665, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens noticed something strange. Two swinging pendulum clocks were found to eventually synchronize when hung together, and it wasn’t until 2002 that the mystery ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that old grandfather clocks and human cells have a central thing in common: They move in synchronisation. This strengthens the performance ...

Using this design, you can construct an electromagnetically impulsed pendulum clock with a 1-second beat. On the prototype, the pendulum rod is 115cm long with a bob adjusted to make it beat every ...

Objects with rhythms naturally synchronize. Yet the phenomenon went entirely undocumented until 1665, when the Dutch physicist and inventor Christiaan Huygens spent a few days sick in bed. A pair of ...

During the past year at the Cruft Laboratory Professor G. W. Pierce has been engaged in making some precision clocks for laboratory and observatory use. One of the clocks employs a pendulum enclosed ...

Clocks pervade our lives, from the cellular clocks inside our bodies to the atomic clocks that underlie satellite navigation. These atomic clocks can measure time accurately to within one second in ...