Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

A power outage in Colorado slowed down the time set by atomic clocks at the NIST laboratory, which accounted for the official ...

During the outage, some clocks lost connection to NIST’s measurement and distribution systems, resulting in a delay of 4.8 microseconds in NIST UTC, NIST spokeswoman Rebecca Jacobson confirmed. To put ...

Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as ...

In the 80th year of the nuclear age, with just 89 seconds left on the Doomsday Clock, every nuclear challenge is trending in ...

Researchers are looking for new ways to improve timekeeping because even small gains in stability can help physicists discover subtle physical effects. The thorium-229 nuclear clock is a newer venture ...

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Retro 1950s style is quietly slipping back into contemporary homes, not as kitsch, but as a comforting counterpoint to sleek ...