The Department of Defense has awarded quantum technology firm Infleqtion an $11 million contract to help it speed up the ...

An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that can be 100 times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks, the current ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) broadcasts atomic clock time signals from Fort ... to keep his Casio G-Shock self-setting watch on track. Not a repeater but a micro ...

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WATCH: Here's how the Doomsday Clock changed from 1947 up to last year. The symbolic device was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947. It was founded at the University of ...

Nuclear clocks could upgrade our most advanced, state-of-the-art atomic clocks by a factor of ten, which means they would potentially drop one second every 300 billion years. Compared to the power ...

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The "pendulums" which regulate them are the vibrating parts of atoms or molecules. So steady are these oscillations that atomic clocks keep better time than the spinning earth itself ...

It discusses the stability and accuracy of atomic frequency standards, including different types of oscillators and atomic clocks, covering recent developments and uses of these devices. The precision ...