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Mindfulness can change how we experience time, making it easier to wait for future rewards without relying on greater willpower.
A growing term for a familiar feeling: how ‘waiting mode’ captures the difficulty of time and anticipation.
A light particle can appear to leave a cloud of atoms before it enters – a new experiment, asking the atoms, confirms the light spends ‘negative time’ with them.
In the Premier League, the proportion of a match where the ball is in play is at a near-record low.
For a starfish, most of life is literally a blur.
Māori, for instance, do not place the present at the centre; as some researchers put it, ‘there is no centre’.
Having more time allows some students to explore their interests.
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
Science fiction imagines wormholes as shortcuts through spacetime. But the original idea suggests they could be something far stranger.
For some people, time feels like it has a physical position in relation to their body.
Our brains don’t actually perceive time – they infer it.
How can time feel so obvious, so woven into the fabric of our experience and yet, for thousands of years, remain the bane of every thinker who has tried to explain it?
Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality.
There’s a reason you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night.
While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.
Is it equally detrimental to us all – or do some groups of people suffer more than others?
History should teach students how to understand and interpret events – not just recite dates and names.
August 5 was a whole millisecond shorter. Strap in for the full explanation.
Many top drivers report feeling like they drive in slow motion.
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Marketing, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor in History, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
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Professor of Law, University of Washington
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Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement, University of Bath
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George Daniels Professor of Scientific Instrumentation, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of Social Geography, Keele University
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University