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One of Kent's most famous coastal landmarks will be open to the public to mark the New Year.
Regular commentator Bill Thompson on what an art project tells us about motivating the online masses.
A Scots scientist who invented a new way to help predict when volcanoes will erupt receives a major award.
Part of an endangered historic monument on Edinburgh's Calton Hill may be saved after it is given a £50,000 grant.
How super accurate atomic timing is at the heart Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system.
England beat India by 104 runs at the Rose Bowl in the first match of the one-day international series.
A team of divers from the University of Bristol investigate the wreck of a fireship which sank off the Scillies 300 years ago.
We can't touch time, or smell it. Yet it is utterly inescapable. But, new research shows, time is - at least partly - something we control in our heads.
The Royal Observatory opens four new galleries featuring some of the world's finest collections of precision time-keeping.
The Apple Powerbook 100 is chosen as the greatest gadget of all time, by US magazine Mobile PC.
A tower built to mark time, now restored as a museum, celebrates the New Year and its 150th anniversary.
The Time Ball Tower in Deal is opening its doors as a museum after undergoing a major refurbishment.
A clockmaker's fight to be recognised for solving the 18th Century longitude problem are revealed by a London museum.
In his new book, Our Final Century, the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, outlines his belief that the human race has only a 50/50 chance of surviving another century.
Ben Ainslie is voted the men's World Sailor of the Year by the International Sailing Federation.
The latest item to be named after the popular Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is a pocket watch bearing a handcrafted enamel portrait.
The Italian motorcycle maker joins designer Alexander McQueen and the Tate Gallery in a list of Britain's 52 'cool' brands.
John Harrison's H4, the famous timekeeper that solved the longitude problem, is running again this week for the first time in over a decade.
Scientists produce a timepiece that should be accurate to about one second in a 100 million years.
James Bond villain Scaramanga's golden "flying" Matador sports car is snapped up at auction for £7,480.
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