Does it ever feel like the years just vanished overnight? You're not the only one. As we age, our perception of time changes.

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.

The fleeting nature of time is something many experience acutely with age. Childhood summers seemed endless, yet now 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 ...

I’ve always been partial to Dunbar, the character in Catch-22 who seeks out boredom and discomfort in order to make time pass more slowly, thus effectively prolonging his life. It’s a sensation that’s ...

Time rarely feels neutral. A quiet walk in the woods can stretch a single hour into something spacious and restorative, while a terrifying near‑miss on the highway can make a few seconds feel like ...

Exercise has long been touted for both its physical and mental health benefits, but recent research adds an intriguing twist to the understanding of its effects, indicating it can also alter the ...

Time perception, the perceived temporal order of events, is subjective and malleable. It can be affected by several factors, including sensory information, and our emotional and attentional states.

Studies find that people's perception of time really does warp during exercise, and the distraction of racing a rival does not fix this distorted perception. When you purchase through links on our ...

Ruth Ogden receives funding from The British Academy, The Wellcome Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, CHANSE and Horizon 2020. This piece was written as part of the Wellcome Trust ...