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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

With the advent of satellite navigation, the requirement for accurate time reached the order of nanoseconds, because a signal delay of one nanosecond corresponds to roughly one foot of distance on the ...

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

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 ...

Adtran’s Oscilloquartz high-performance optical cesium technology integrated in Swiss timescale infrastructure at METAS ...

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