Puranic time units into human years. However, there is a Puranic time unit that has escaped scholarly attention. "This is the samdhya between consecutive kalpas, which is known as the pratisamdhi.

David J. Wineland, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, gives media a tour of his lab after winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics for ...

The units of time range from the infinitesimally brief to the interminably long. The descriptions given here attempt to convey a sense of this vast chronological span ...

Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule. That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a ...

Scientific units are set to receive their biggest shake-up since the inception of the modern metric system in 1960. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) -- one of three ...

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.

Revamped definitions of scientific units are on their way. In the biggest overhaul of the international system of units (SI) since its inception in 1960, a committee is set to redefine four basic ...