World's first compact and robust high-precision optical lattice clock with a 250L volume successfully developed
An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that can be 100 times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks, the current ...
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Pentagon’s new move aims to field atomic clock faster with defense systems
Atomic clocks are so accurate that they have an error rate of approximately 1 second in up to 100 million years.
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Micro Radio Time Station Keeps Watch In Sync
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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Doomsday Clock moved to just two minutes to 'apocalypse'
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 ...
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The Doomsday Clock, explained
The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...
Quantum physicists tap into entanglement to improve the precision of optical atomic clocks
It's not your ordinary pocket watch: The researchers showed that ... Adam Kaufman refers to as the "Holy Grail" for optical ...