Breakthrough could pave the way for next-generation GPS in drones, smartphones and self-driving cars, scientists say.

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...

The threat of GPS jamming extends beyond aviation. Without GPS, our lives would grind to a halt: in 2017, a government report ...

The 2025 Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight than ever before, signaling 'humanity edging closer to catastrophe' according to the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics ...

With access to a 10-MHz timebase from a cesium fountain atomic clock — no less a clock than the one that’s used to define the SI second, by the way — [Daniel] looked for ways to sync the ...

The optical lattice clock, developed in collaboration with The University of Tokyo and RIKEN, is about 100 times more precise than traditional cesium atomic clocks, which currently define the SI ...

They may also set themselves according to atomic clocks. They even adjust when we travel into different time zones if they are taken out of airplane mode upon arrival. A radio-controlled clock ...

NPL's atomic clock, alongside clocks from around 80 labs worldwide, helps set Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), the official global time standard To pinpoint our exact location, we need to know ...