Colorado power outages disrupt atomic clock in Boulder

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...

NIST warns that its NIST-F4 atomic clock lost track of time after a power outage

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...
University of Nevada, Reno

The most precise clock ever built ticks closer to reality

Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.
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Optical nuclear clock closer to reality with new thorium-229 laser breakthrough

A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving ...
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A chip that keeps time (almost) like an atomic clock

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

Vladan Vuletić with members of his Experimental Atomic Physics group. From left to right: Matthew Radzihovsky, Leon Zaporski, Qi Liu, Vladan Vuletić, and Gustavo Velez. Every time you check the time ...
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Redefining Timekeeping Accuracy with Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock

Researchers are looking for new ways to improve timekeeping because even small gains in stability can help physicists discover subtle physical effects. The thorium-229 nuclear clock is a newer venture ...

Counting electrons reveals thorium’s nuclear tick in a solid clock

Researchers develop a method to count thorium-229 nuclear ticks, paving the way for high-precision nuclear clocks and sensors ...