The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that ...

Whether you find yourself glancing at a clock on the wall or checking your phone, the time you constantly see is the product of a meticulous system upheld by the world’s timekeepers. In the U.S., a ...

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...

Atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for ... The ability to access a nuclear state with light makes thorium-229 a unique candidate for a nuclear optical clock. This isn’t just a ...

Current atomic clocks, which use cesium atoms and microwaves ... At the heart of this innovation is a unique design using a mixed-species “Coulomb crystal,” a precise arrangement of different ...

[Martin] cast a real human skull, then added a 4 digit LED display that’s attached to a rubidium atomic clock (running a FE-5680A frequency standard). The display counts down a single second ...

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 ...

According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and ...

How do we know Einstein had it right? One experiment in the 1970s provided some pretty strong evidence: Atomic clocks are extremely accurate clocks that can measure tiny amounts of time ...

Atomic clocks record time using microwaves at a frequency matched to electron transitions in certain atoms. They are the basis upon which a second is defined. But there is a new kid on the block ...

Atomic clocks create a sort of a standardized measurement of time ... The Lab Report: Studying the impacts of climate system changes on volcanoes The unique aspect of this experiment is that the lab ...