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

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

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

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

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

By studying decay of bound-state beta decay of thallium-205 (205Tl81+), scientists can better understand the timing and ...

The length of a second was initially determined astronomically, using Earth's rotation. One second was defined as 1/86,400th ...

Atomic Digital Clock Auto Set (no back light) - Using radio frequencies broadcast from NIST’s Colorado , the clock will automatically set to the correct time. Automatically adjusts to Daylight ...

Adtran today announced that Switzerland's Federal Institute of Metrology METAS has successfully deployed its OSA 3300 HP, ...

A method to take snapshots of exploding nuclei could hold clues about the fundamental properties of gold, uranium and other ...