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Uninhabited Baker Island is among the last to see the new year, as 2026 takes 26 hours to roll across the globe.

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Physicist Heinz von Foerster, claimed in 1960 that the world would end sometime in the 2020s, according to a report in Time ...

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How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

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UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...