Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

COSTA MESA – It’s precisely 1 p.m. at Buck’s Clock Shoppe in Costa Mesa, and dozens of grandfather, cuckoo and pendulum clocks are singing their familiar songs. For 80-year-old Robert “Buck” Emenger, ...

A team of international scientists has drilled deep ice cores in glaciers in Tajikistan to collect centuries of climate data ...

GALION - A dozen clocks ticked and tocked around Steve Shroyer as he opened the glass door of an American time-and-strike. "Different kinds of clocks need to be adjusted certain ways," he said, slowly ...

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. - The grandfather clocks, mantle clocks and treasured cuckoo clocks we remember in our grandma's house are hot items in the antique market. But the tradesmen who repair those old ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...

“We bought the business from the original owners, Rainer and Marita Frew, in 2004 after they built and established it in 1988,” Mr Rich said. “We come from a primary producers’ background as graziers, ...