Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Accurate Clock. It Could Be a Turning Point for Humanity.
The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...
How the World Wars forged modern time
From the humble wristwatch to the atomic clock, innovations that came out of global conflicts transformed our relationship ...
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20 million years to become a star: Cosmic clock unlocks mystery of sun’s birth time
By studying decay of bound-state beta decay of thallium-205 (205Tl81+), scientists can better understand the timing and ...
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Adtran's Oscilloquartz high-performance optical cesium technology integrated in Swiss timescale infrastructure at METAS
Adtran today announced that Switzerland's Federal Institute of Metrology METAS has successfully deployed its OSA 3300 HP, ...
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Wall clock that survived A-bomb keeps on ticking 77 years later
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 ...
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Space travel: the health effects of space radiation and building a lunar GPS
Welsh’s ebook is called “ Space Radiation: Astrophysical origins, radiobiological effects and implications for space ...
China Working on Energy Weapon That Converges Multiple Beams
Chinese Death Star China's military is working on an experimental weapon system that converges multiple streams of microwaves ...
Wall Street Journal: Trump’s win means it isn’t Iran’s Middle East anymore
News of Donald Trump’s victory sent the rial, Iran’s currency, to an all-time low. The party may be over for the Iranian ...
A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock
Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...
Chinese scientists claim breakthrough in designs for real-life Death Star energy weapon
Chinese scientists claim to have developed an advanced directed-energy weapon similar to the Death Star in Star Wars, capable ...
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Multi-qubit entangled states boost atomic clock and sensor performance
They are inspecting an atomic optical clock at JILA. (Courtesy: Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder) Frequency measurements using multi-qubit entangled states have been performed by two independent groups in ...