Time (Chronology), Time Systems & Standards

Time is relative, situation-dependent, location- and culturally-dependent, and very much subjective. Yet we treat it as if it were objective. We sh...

Circadian rhythms have been shown to be ubiquitous and critically important in the experimental laboratory, accounting for the difference between l...

Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...

Isotope chronology has developed over the last 100 years and has advanced in response to the requirements of geological research. Despite the techn...

Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...

Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidenc...

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned commun...

What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neithe...