Over the last several years, researchers have shown that it is possible to design clocks 1,000 times more precise than the ...

Atomic clocks use the oscillations of atoms as timekeeping ‘pendulums’ – which, like grandfather clocks, involve weights suspended from a pivot, the swing of which defines time. When ...

Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic ...

Telling time in space is difficult, but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing relativity to navigating down the road. Atomic clocks, such as those used on the Global ...

Modern timekeeping relies on the accuracy of atomic clocks, which revolutionized timekeeping by using the quantum behavior of atoms to measure time. Discover how these incredibly precise clocks ...

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 ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even ...

The optical atomic clock uses an electronic transition frequency to tell the time The clock, which uses an electronic transition frequency to tell the time, made an almost identical journey to one ...