a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic clocks known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Without precise timing there would be ...

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 ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) said it had acted because the world was becoming "more dangerous". The clock, created by the journal in 1947, is a metaphor for how close mankind is to ...

The precision of atomic clocks and the atomic time scale are considered in the context of fundamental physical research, with relation to general relativity and applications such as the Global ...

Premium Ekkehard Peik, one of the field’s pioneers, says such a clock could be a factor of 1,000 times better than today’s standard atomic clocks. Image: Pixabay FOR THE discerning timekeeper ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It warns how many metaphorical “minutes to midnight” humanity has ...

Harrison's clocks enabling precise global navigation in the 18th Century, GMT as the global time scale in the 19th, the first accurate atomic clock supporting the transition to atomic time in the ...

They are inspecting an atomic optical clock at JILA ... produce larger GHZ states and show that such states can not only confer an improvement on a clock with the same limitations as a similar clock ...

HIROSHIMA--Passed down from his grandfather, a U.S.-made wooden clock that hangs on a living room wall at Eiji Koizumi’s home here has stood the test of time and an atomic bomb blast. The ...

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a global network of regulated exchanges and clearing houses for financial and commodity markets, has announced it will abandon its GPS-based timekeeping system in ...