Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic ...

Caption The heart of NIST's next-generation miniature atomic clock--ticking at high 'optical' frequencies -- is this vapor cell on a chip, shown next to a coffee bean for scale. The glass cell ...

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

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

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 ...

For atomic-clock architects, it's not just about building ... even at the microscopic scale," said NIST and JILA physicist Jun Ye. "It's pushing the boundaries of what's possible with timekeeping." ...

NIST’s research supports innovation in diverse industries, impacting everything from smart grids and electronic health records to atomic clocks and nanomaterials. NIST’s mission is to promote ...

Accurate frequency measurements of a narrow optical clock transition in ... develop increasingly accurate atomic clocks. The spectral resolution achieved in the NIST experiment is higher than ...

NIST physicist Elizabeth Donley holds a card used to trace the paths of laser beams in the atomic gyroscope. The atoms are in a small glass container inside the magnetic shield box with the pink ...