A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

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

Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

On a campus in Boulder, Colorado, time just became a little more exact. Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not ...

Gaby and Alex’s team developed a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) that is a little larger than a peanut. Rubidium atoms in the atomic beam provide the microwave quantum transition that is used by the ...

This press release is available in German. The world's best caesium atomic clocks control Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale on which the time zones used in everyday life are based ...