There’s a long history of devices originally used for communication being made into computers, with relay switching circuits, ...

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

This breakthrough in precision timing is about the size of your fingernail and only loses one second every 30,000 years. Reading time 2 minutes This tiny cube fits on the tip of your finger and also ...

No audio available for this content. One of India’s four navigation satellites has failed, a setback for the NAVIC network. Satellite IRNSS-1F was lost after its atomic clock stopped functioning. Only ...

Physicists at CU Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The researchers say the device could ...

Twice a year, Americans reset their clocks and lose an hour of sleep. The tradition may feel like a modern nuisance, but it began as a wartime policy during World War I. At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, ...

AURORA, Colorado—Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force are testing several new technologies aboard the next GPS III satellite, including a new digital atomic clock. Current GPS satellites carry a ...

To find out how clock accuracy is verified and which reference is used for comparison, we visited the Belarusian State Institute of Metrology (BelGIM), where most of the national standards are kept.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight. It is the closest the clock has ever been to midnight in its history. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said ...

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, ...

Nuclear effect The deformed shape of the ytterbium-173 nucleus (right) makes it possible to excite the clock transition with a relatively low-power laser. The same transition is forbidden (left) if ...