But returning to an old-fashioned alarm clock instead of your phone might help you get up and go in the morning. “Keeping the phone in another room will likely decrease the opportunity for ...

Credit: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt In an optical atomic clock, atoms are irradiated by laser light. If the laser has the correct frequency, the atoms change their quantum-mechanical state.

Winter is winding down as the sun is setting later each day, but nothing says spring like the day we spring the clocks forward. Under the current daylight saving period, most Americans will lose ...

Have you ever thought to yourself, “What I’d really like is a Nintendo alarm clock to wake up to in the morning?” No? Well neither have I, but that’s exactly what we’re about to get in ...

This is where waking up with a so-called sunrise alarm clock — which mimics sunrise through the gradual brightening of a light — can help your body wake up more naturally, experts say.

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