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April 14, 2022 Sam Baron, _Australian Catholic University_ Cutting-edge theories of physics suggest time may not be real – but even if they’re right, life can still go on as usual. April 5,

2022 Steve Calandrillo, _University of Washington_ Research suggests that permanent daylight saving time would save lives as well as energy and prevent crime. February 28, 2022 Tjaart

Krüger, _University of Pretoria_ and Emil Roduner, _University of Stuttgart_ Probabilistic processes are never time-reversible. January 24, 2022 Or Graur, _University of Portsmouth_ Time

ends when the universe does. January 6, 2022 Claire Wladis, _CUNY Graduate Center_ College students with children have slightly higher GPAs but often take a longer time to graduate and are

more likely to drop out of school. January 5, 2022 Brad Aeon, _Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)_ New Year’s resolutions can help us aim for a better future, but time management is the

real key to actually achieving those resolutions. December 30, 2021 Matthew S. Champion, _Australian Catholic University_ The calendar helps to give us a map of the shifting revolutions of

the seasons, ordering our days. But how did it come about? January 3, 2023 Miriamne Ara Krummel, _University of Dayton_ Today most societies take the A.D. time system for granted. That

wasn’t always the case. December 19, 2021 Adam Osth, _The University of Melbourne_ Cues from people and events around us plus memories of past holidays shape our sense of time over summer.

No wonder one day blends into the next. October 28, 2021 Thomas Widlok, _University of Cologne_ and Joachim Knab, _University of Cologne_ Africans are stereotyped as having no regard for

time and timing. This is a myth. October 19, 2021 Mariusz Kozak, _Columbia University_ Some concertgoers reported being so moved by their first concerts in nearly two years that they wept

with joy – a testament to the power of this unique form of human communion and connection. October 11, 2021 Philip Gable, _University of Delaware_ and Chris Wendel, _University of Alabama_

For the first 12 months of the pandemic, a team of researchers tracked the relationship between emotions, time perception and health-related behaviors like wearing a mask. August 25, 2021

Selin Malkoc, _The Ohio State University_ ‘Hustle culture’ is so pervasive in U.S. society that not even the coronavirus pandemic could shake the urge to prioritize productivity. July 26,

2021 Mario Borunda, _Oklahoma State University_ Gravity is something every person on Earth intuitively understands: It is what keeps you on the ground. But how come gravity pulls down,

rather than pushes up? Einstein came up with the answer. August 28, 2023 Selin Malkoc, _The Ohio State University_ A new study finds that the feeling is pervasive – and can change the way

trips are planned and how money is spent. June 10, 2021 Steve Taylor, _Leeds Beckett University_ A different interpretation of time might explain why people see their whole lives replayed to

them in a split second. May 19, 2021 Edward Laird, _Lancaster University_ and Natalia Ares, _University of Oxford_ This is the first time a measurement has been made of the entropy

generated by telling time. March 24, 2021 Ben Murdin, _University of Surrey_ New research has tested the latest generation of atomic clocks. February 1, 2021 Matthew S. Champion, _Australian

Catholic University_ From birdsong to window-tapping professionals to bleeping symphonies, morning alarms have come a long way. December 28, 2020 Ruth Ogden, _Liverpool John Moores

University_ My research shows how lockdown changed our perception of time this year – and holds clues for how we’ll experience the wait for a vaccine in 2021.