/oss/taxonomy/term/1555/all en /oss/article/history-environment-did-you-know/does-daylight-savings-time-actually-save-energy <p>The surefire signs that Spring is just around the corner have started to appear – trees are budding, flowers beginning to bloom and there’s more rain than snow. (Full disclosure – I live in the UK now, so if the snow is persisting in Canada, I apologize for the false hope.) Very soon it will be time to move our clocks forward one hour, pushing sunrise to post-7 am, but giving us light until nearly 8 pm.</p> Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:36:07 +0000 Ada McVean M.Sc. 9861 at /oss /oss/article/health/when-best-time-drink-water <p> A friend forwarded me an interesting facebook post that claimed that the best time to drink water was just before going to bed. Upon careful reflection, it seems to me that this would be the worst possible time to drink water unless you really enjoy waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.</p> Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:46:55 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7601 at /oss /oss/article/general-science-you-asked/time-conundrum <p><strong>I was fascinated by yesterdays announcement that "old light"
 revealed trace evidence in the background radiation of the earliest
  trillionth of a trillionth (and then some) of a second of the "big bang".
 What I don't grasp is the measurement of the timescale, if we are talking
 about the creation of the most elemental forces, aren't we talking about the
 creation of time itself too? If so how do we establish a time-scale to
  measure what involves-among other things- the creation of the time that we
 are measuring by?</strong></p> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:39:07 +0000 Gil Holden PhDc ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Physics Professor 2115 at /oss