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 ...

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

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 ...

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

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

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 ...

The Doomsday Clock currently sits at 89 seconds to midnight in 2025, marking humanity's closest approach to global ...

In many ways, 2025 resembled the Hollywood film Back to the Future—and not only because Donald Trump returned to the White ...