A clock built by a team led by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been estimated to be 41 percent more accurate than the previous timekeeping record holder.

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

An NIST physicist holds the newly modified ion trap for the aluminum ion clock. By modifying the trap, the aluminum ion and its magnesium ion partner could 'tick' unperturbed. Optical atomic clocks ...

The world's most accurate clock – so precise that it would take 10 billion years for it to deviate by one second – has gone ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...

Don’t panic–there’s no real need to tackle any tricky math to understand this breakthrough. All you need to do is recall some high school lessons that show that everything around you is made of atoms ...

To avoid being overwhelmed by the myriad options when shopping for a clock, consider their key features to find the best wall ...

Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo, Europe’s twenty-first century navigation system, also ...

It would take 15 billion years for the clock that occupies Jun Ye’s basement lab at the University of Colorado to lose a second. This undated handout photo obtained September 8, 2021 shows ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate ...

Even the most punctual among us are content to synchronize their clocks to external time sources like navigation satellite constellations, network time servers, frequency-controlled AC mains, or ...

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