A new atomic clock is one of the world’s best timekeepers, researchers say — and after years of development, the “fountain”-style clock is now in use helping keep official U.S. time. Known as NIST-F4, ...
After 78 years, the Doomsday Clock has been set closer than it has ever been. As a global society, we are now only 89 seconds to midnight after scientists moved the clock’s hand one second closer to ...
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An Arizona-based company has launched its next generation of low-noise Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC). Microchip's model SA65-LN is designed to operate in a wider temperature range, enabling low-phase ...
At 11:30 one night in May 2024, a graduate student, Chuankun Zhang, saw a signal that physicists have sought for 50 years. As a peak rose from the static on his monitor at the research institute JILA ...
Poland has just started up one of the few optical atomic clocks in the world that puts old cesium fountain atomic clocks to shame. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...
The world is closer than ever to destruction, according to the Doomsday Clock, an attempt by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to warn world leaders and civilians of man-made global ...