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

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

Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

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

the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists caused a stir when they set this Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, making this the ...

From the humble wristwatch to the atomic clock, innovations that came out of global conflicts transformed our relationship ...

The global atomic clock market, which reached a significant milestone of USD 494.6 million in 2022, is forecasted to surpass ...

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 ...

While the first atomic clock was invented in 1949, no nuclear clock has yet been feasible. The simple reason is that it takes much more energy to excite a nucleus into a higher energy state than ...

WASHINGTON--NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time ... new moon-centric time reference system. “An atomic clock on the moon will tick at a different rate ...

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeeping devices we have ... the same limitations as a similar clock measured with random atoms, but can produce the world’s best clock overall.

Ronald Reagan gave one to Mikhail Gorbachev. Gerald Ford was a fan. Bill Nye The Science Guy keeps one in his New York apartment. Henry Kissinger and Frank Sinatra both owned one. Malcolm Forbes had ...