In ancient India, time was referred to as kala. It was considered eternal, implying that it had no beginning or end. Interestingly, ancient Indians devised numerous units to measure time in quantities ...

Facebook has invented a new unit of time: The "flick," equivalent to precisely one 705,600,000th of a second — larger than a nanosecond, and smaller than a microsecond. It's short for "frame tick," ...

Scientists successfully measured an event using zeptoseconds, which is an incredibly brief fraction of a second. The time it took for a photo to pass through a hydrogen molecule was measured at 247 ...

Of all the things we expected to come out of the rise of Oculus and the still-burgeoning era of consumer virtual reality, a new fundamental unit of time was not one of them. But that’s just what ...

Scientists are preparing to redefine the fundamental unit of time. It won’t get any longer or shorter, but it will be more precise — and a whole lot more powerful. By Alanna Mitchell Modern ...

Scott Diddams and Tom O'Brian of the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, explain. Just how fast an event is depends somewhat on your point of view. In ...