But why do they keep saying “clock tick”? Were the Wicked characters’ clocks born ticking, or did they have clock tick thrust upon them? I have a theory, and I’m sorry in advance about it. The idea ...

Both the musical and its movie adaptation largely leave out a key piece of worldbuilding from Gregory Maguire's novels—making the repeated use of 'Clock Tick' in 'For Good' come off weirder than any ...

Forget Greenwich Mean Time or Eastern Daylight Time, scientists say we need a brand new time zone – for Mars. That's because clocks on the Red Planet will tick 477 microseconds faster than those on ...

A familiar glance at Earth clocks gives certainty. Atomic time and satellites guide each passing second. Yet things shift once clocks leave the planet. Scientists now face a vital cosmic question.

Fans are flocking to Wicked: For Good, but more than a few of them are a bit confused by one particular phrase repeated throughout the film: “In a clock tick.” The first part of Jon M Chu’s movie ...

Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, built with atomic clocks, GPS satellites and high-speed telecommunications ...

Even though daily temperature fluctuations serve as a synchronizing signal for circadian clocks (see above), clocks are also temperature compensated. This means that when kept under constant ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab. Everything is wired together so well that you rarely think about the ...

A JetBlue pilot’s illness looked like food poisoning, but it was actually an increasingly common tick-borne meat allergy that can be fatal. By Joseph Goldstein The 47-year-old JetBlue pilot went to a ...

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy lifting was more challenging than I initially thought." When you purchase ...