There’s nothing quite like the feeling of going to grandma’s house—it’s the setting that hosts family parties and holiday ...

The magnitude and frequency of aviation incidents have stimulated a search for answers ranging from small fixes to extreme ...

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F4 measures an ...

Atomic clocks keep getting smaller, lower power, and better—Microchip’s latest chip-scale version leverages EXMO technology to bring its height down to half an inch. Where and why tiny ...

The system uses a network of satellites, each equipped with highly accurate atomic clocks, to broadcast signals ... In ...

Atomic clock scientist Jun Ye of JILA hopes such ... particularly with the development of the pendulum clock in the mid-17th century, timekeepers further divided the hour into minutes and seconds.

The Doomsday Clock ... Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Though I wasn’t fully aware of it at the time, the point at which I first became concerned about the Doomsday Clock in the mid-1990s ...

Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV and becomes the first pope from the ...

FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock might not lose a thousandth of one in a decade.

Atomic clocks, by contrast, rely on the predictable behavior of atoms, providing superior stability and accuracy. The development of Cesium-based clocks in the mid-20th century marked the first major ...

Time is an inalienable part of our reality. Scientists don’t understand it fully at the universe’s largest and smallest scales, but fortunately for humans, a panoply of natural philosophers ...