The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...

Unless, of course, you work at CERN and built “the most accurate pendulum clock on ... to a 10-MHz timebase from a cesium fountain atomic clock — no less a clock than the one that’s ...

In humankind's ever-ticking pursuit of perfection, scientists have developed an atomic clock that is more precise and accurate than any clock previously created. The new clock was built by ...

FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every ...

Researchers at JILA, a US research institute, have developed a new light-based atomic clock that is so precise that it can measure the slightest effects, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of ...

Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka ... continues to give reliable and accurate service to this day ...

Nuclear clocks could be more accurate than atomic clocks by a factor of about 10, potentially leading to improved GPS ...

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of time and time measurement, from an historical perspective to the modern day. It discusses the stability and accuracy of atomic ...

The invention – called the optical lattice clock – is a thousand times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks used ... so it’s not surprising that most others were cautious until we had ...

including a groundbreaking clock designed to be the most accurate ever to work in space. NASA created the multi-million-dollar timepiece, called the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), to keep track ...

Accurate frequency measurements of a narrow optical clock transition in 171 Yb atoms trapped in an optical lattice establish this system as a serious contender in the quest to develop increasingly ...