Remember how summer vacation felt endless when you were a kid? Three months seemed like an eternity filled with countless adventures and experiences. Now entire years pass in what feels like weeks.

They called these variabilities in perception "temporal wrinkles." "The heartbeat is a rhythm that our brain is using to give us our sense of time passing, and that is not linear—it is constantly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A new study published in Psychophysiology suggests that the length of our ...

For many, the last year might have felt like it flashed by in an instant. It’s as if January was just here. However, for children, last year’s holiday season can seem like a distant memory from ages ...

Can large language models (LLMs) truly comprehend the concept of time? It's a question that goes beyond mere clock-reading abilities and strikes at the heart of how artificial intelligences (AIs) ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. I’ve always been partial to Dunbar, ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to establish that our perception of the passing of time can independently influence how a wound will heal. While preliminary, this novel study opens the ...

Tempus Fugit a Sign on the former Dyson's jewellers, Briggate, Leeds Source: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Several years ago, during a discussion about possible studies ...

The pandemic distorted our sense of time. For some, time stood still. For others, it sped up. The difference depended on factors from culture to emotional state. The pandemic did something strange to ...