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Time: The Ultimate Guide

A boy sitting on grass, segmented as if by time (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout)
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Does time really go slower for children?

By Krupa Padhy

Astronaut in helmet in front of spacecraft porthole (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach/Bastien Pourtout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

Why you age slower on a plane

By Chris Lintott
Illustration of people standing looking at a clock (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

How clocks have shaped civilisation

By Rebecca Struthers
Once upon a time, time began – so what will happen when it ends? (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach/Bastien Pourtout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

The cosmic event that started time

By Michael Marshall
Illustration of a young girl and woman looking at each other (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

What if you met your future self?

By Hal Hershfield
Split image of man shouting with arms raised (Credit: Taufenbach Pourtout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

The dangers of travelling through time

By Michael Marshall
Illustration of someone in a hat appearing to time travel (Credit: Bastien Pourtout and Edouard Taufenbach)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

How humans could travel through time

By Michael Marshall
(Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Portout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

11 mind-boggling facts about time

By BBC Future Staff
A woman sitting in the evening sun (Credit: Edouard Taufenback and Bastien Pourtout)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

The places where it's not 2023

By Erin Craig
The language you speak can have surprising effects on the way you perceive space and time (Credit: Jun Chen/Alamy)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

The weird effect language has on time

By Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren
In the world we know, tomorrow always follows today. But why? (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach courtesy of Gallery C)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

The time-mystery left by the Big Bang

By Martha Henriques
How do we know what time it is... down to the nanosecond? (Credit: Getty Images)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

The people who think in nanoseconds

By Richard Fisher
In our modern world, we allow our lives to be run by tight time schedules, but maybe not everything has to run like clockwork (Credit: Getty Images)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

Why avoiding clocks may be good for you

By Lakshmi Sandhana
Line of women dressed as clocks (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld/Getty Images)
Time: The Ultimate Guide

What we get wrong about time

By Claudia Hammond
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Time: The Ultimate Guide

Who invented daylight saving time?

By Richard Mellor
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Time: The Ultimate Guide

The time lords ruling the world

By David Robson