The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has dramatically enhanced the precision of time measurement with ...

Quantum sensors could enable resilient U.S. PNT within a few years—but only if America continues to develop and deploy the ...

By using paired, offset optical combs and RF electronics, researchers devised a unique atomic-clock architecture.

As the Washington Post reports, if the extremely accurate clock ran for 100 million years, it would only be off by less than a second. What makes the National Institute of Standards and Technology's ...

A new atomic clock is one of the world’s best timekeepers, researchers say — and after years of development, the “fountain”-style clock is now in use helping keep official U.S. time.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a science-oriented advocacy group ... itself with human-made advancements. “We set the clock closer to midnight because we do not see positive progress ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists on Tuesday ... chair of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board. "Setting the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight is a warning to all ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

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Atomic clocks’ accuracy and stability have already ... Mindy Weisberger is a science writer and media producer whose work has appeared in Live Science, Scientific American and How It Works ...