As if timekeeping in the U.S. wasn’t already pretty accurate, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just declared a new atomic clock, the NIST-F2, to ...
Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world ...
Time will no longer be imposed upon us by a cesium fountain clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,” ...
When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system, it threw out the US official time standard. These touchstone atomic ...
Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a tiny atomic fountain ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and Harvard scientists have built the world’s most precise optical clock, surpassing the quantum limit with entangled atoms ...
For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...
The geospatial sector, and the wider community, relies on precise timekeeping based on microwave atomic clocks. Is that about ...
As well as being useful for creating an optical ion clock, this multi-ion capability could also be exploited to create quantum-computing architectures based on multiple trapped ions. And because the ...