The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead. Leap seconds have driven a raging debate in ...

Today an international group of scientists, diplomats and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s ...

International delegates agree leap second no longer tenable, but first leap hour not likely to happen for thousands of years After decades of discussion, quibbling and worrying about clocks in ...

When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and ...

For those lucky enough to have living, loving extended family members, there’s something deeply comforting about knowing there are people, whether near or far, to whom you can turn when things get ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. When researchers mapped almost 100,000 square kilometers of South Africa, or nearly 40,000 square miles, they only found 83 mature adults. They ...

A screenshot from the live online cheetah cam feed on October 9 shows the mother, Zura, with her five cubs. Screenshot via Cheetah Cub Cam Safe in their den, a new litter of cheetah cubs curls up for ...

You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in ...

Jets QB Geno Smith slings a pass to WR Garrett Wilson who makes a leaping fingertip grab for a 32-yard gain. Watch all the best plays by Jets rookie WR Omar Cooper Jr. during his 115-yard performance ...

Five cheetah cubs had to survive a weather scare and the illness of their mother after their birth at the Prague Zoo. But they are doing well now, the zoo said on Friday. The zoo said the quintuplets ...

He played with Rocket From the Tombs and the Dead Boys, whose snarling nihilism opened the door to an entire music genre in the 1970s. By Clay Risen Cheetah Chrome, a snarling, red-haired guitarist ...

Cheetah Chrome, guitarist of the pioneering punk band Dead Boys, died Sunday, September 13. He was 71. His death was announced on the band’s Instagram page. A cause of death was not disclosed. “We are ...