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Why we’re trapped in short-term thinking and how to take the long view

Society

Why we’re trapped in short-term thinking and how to take the long view

Many of the most serious problems we face are the result of our tendency to focus on the present at the expense of the future. But we can escape this temporal myopia by confronting how we think about time

Features

Daylight saving time change, spring forward

Comment

Saving Time review: We need a longer sense of time – based on nature

Culture

NGC 1858 is an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that has an abundance of star-forming regions

Physics

How are the atoms that form us forged across the universe?

News

Atomic clock components sit in a laboratory setting, a blue light laser shines through a metal chamber, partially obscured by a pair of lenses

Physics

Most accurate molecular clock yet uses extremely cold strontium

News

People waiting in the waiting room of a doctor's office

Health

People with low incomes spend longer waiting for basic services in US

News

Coloured arrows

Physics

Quantum trick sees light move forwards and back in time simultaneously

News

A deer in front of a car

Environment

Annual US clock change kills 33 people and 36,500 deer in car crashes

News

Experiment in photonic laboratory with laser

Physics

Quantum watch is a 'completely new way of measuring time'

News

Cows on a green globe

How spherical-cow philosophy makes hard physics problems easy

News

Across the universe. Traveling in space. Time travel. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.; Shutterstock ID 200832383; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Space

Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory

Space-time isn't expanding into anything because general relativity is what we call a background independent theory. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein sets out to explain what this means

Comment

Physics

Can particles really be in two places at the same time?

News

Physics

What does it mean when we say that space-time is expanding?

Comment

Physics

Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

News

Physics

Contemplating the mysteries of the fourth dimension is time well spent

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