The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...
A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...
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 ...
Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.
A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving ...
For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...
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 ...
Researchers develop a method to count thorium-229 nuclear ticks, paving the way for high-precision nuclear clocks and sensors ...
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 ...
Being on the surface of a sizable planet moving at high speed through space, spinning around a yellow star and on its axis, ...