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 ...
The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every ...
The era of nuclear clocks is almost here: What it means for the world
Nuclear clocks could be more accurate than atomic clocks by a factor of about 10, potentially leading to improved GPS ...
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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GNSS clocks prove to be invisible and indispensable
In turn, atomic clocks on GNSS satellites became the most convenient way ... “Close to Russia, China, Israel, any of the conflicts in the world, there have been attacks on these networks every day.
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How We Determined the Length of a Second
The length of a second was initially determined astronomically, using Earth's rotation. One second was defined as 1/86,400th ...
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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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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 ...
World War III with Russia ‘a very real threat’ under new Trump presidency
Dr Bennett has sent a letter to Sir Keir Starmer stating that ‘it is pertinent to ask whether we are in the foothills of a ...