Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical ...

Besides the secret passageways that are already in the game by default, players can create their own - whether they want an ...

Join me on this exciting woodworking project as I attempt to build a cuckoo clock out of wood from scratch. I've always been fascinated by these intricate timepieces, but I've never tried my hand at ...

Nearly two years after the first Worcester County Wonders hit the newsstands, more than 100 stories about historical figures, places, families and traditions across Central Massachusetts have graced ...

When the Romans pushed over the Alps 2,000 years ago into the forested mountain range running through Germany's southwestern tip, they named it the silva nigra—black forest—after its moody glades of ...

In central Slovakia, the country’s largest cuckoo clock now marks the hour with folk musicians, blending superstition, music and craft. An old saying has it that if someone hears a cuckoo calling from ...

PORTSMOUTH — Tori Tucker is presently the envy of all her birdwatching friends. The Seacoast resident took a stroll Nov. 21 through South Cemetery, where she spotted a bird that didn’t appear local to ...

Last week fast-moving ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman made a fast trip to Europe to try to stop the dismantlement and removal—for reparations—of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode ...

Some of the items on display at the new cuckoo clock exhibition at the Irish Museum of Time in Waterford. Photo Patrick Browne. This autumn, as the clocks fall back on Sunday, October 26, the world’s ...

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is coming back around. The Miloš Forman masterpiece, one of the rare movies to win all five of the big Academy Awards categories, is celebrating its 50th anniversary ...

STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...