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New Atomic Fountain Clock Props Up the World's Time With Pinpoint Precision
F4, the latest cesium fountain clock that now stands as one of the most accurate timekeepers in the entire world.
New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...
New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time
According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and ...
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New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
A Special Kind of Clock Cesium fountain clocks such as NIST-F4 are a type of atomic clock — a complex, high-precision device that extracts timing pulses from atoms. These clocks play a critical ...
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Nasa launches atomic clocks to space to prove Einstein's theory about time
The atomic clock payload to be installed on the ISS’s Columbus module, aims to push the boundaries of precision timekeeping ...
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US scientists debut atomic clock that stays true for 100 million years straight
Marvel’s Time Variance Authority (TVA) would probably call dibs on this atomic clock if they could! The NIST-F4 atomic clock, ...
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100 years on, ESA tests Einstein’s relativity theory with atomic clocks on ISS
ACES will gather ultra-precise data across at least ten observation windows, each lasting about 25 days during the ...
World’s most accurate clock sold in Japan for US$3.3 million
Resembling a squat, wide fridge, the world’s most accurate clock went on sale for US$3.3 million (HK$25.7 million) in Japan last month. The “Aether clock OC 020” is so precise that it would take 10 ...