Look to the stars

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

One Bath location that Jane Austen wrote about – criticising the houses as being too small – is New King Street. Come to number 19, in which several rooms recreate interiors in a typical 18th-century

Starting on Christmas morning of 1964, residents in and around Warminster in Wiltshire heard a loud noise in the sky that they described as being like a loud clatter or crackling associated with a hum

YOU KNOW THERE’S something special happening when the room is packed with more Watchworld royalty than a Friday night in Geneva’s Hotel Beau-Rivage bar. The evening was all about Ferdinand Berthoud’s

I’m sceptical about news stories you sometimes read of big black cats roaming the countryside. I was, however, tempted to don my boots for a hike I found on the internet titled In the Footsteps of the

What the scientists are saying…