This past August, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a development that could deliver a thousand-fold performance improvement over the quartz crystal ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This unit is all that remains of a ...
Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...
As a species, we are obsessed about time. Our technological exploits rely on an increasingly exact knowledge of time. For example, some communications systems require frequency uncertainty 10-11 ...
The temperature dependent characteristics of quartz crystals prevent time keeping also with state-of-the-art real time clocks from being highly accurate over a wide temperature range, unless ...
The world’s most accurate clock has taken the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Jun Ye, a physicist with the joint venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the ...
IF TIME waits for no man, then neither does human ingenuity in measuring its passing. Throughout history, more stable and accurate clocks have led to advances in communications and navigation. Now a ...