Today’s state-of-the-art optical clocks offer accuracy to 18 decimal places, which is roughly equivalent to measuring the ...

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...

Ekkehard Peik is a clock-maker. But instead of spending his days looking at tiny cogs and springs through a magnifying glass, the tools of his trade are powerful lasers, wires and, occasionally, ...

In 2024, TU Wien presented the world's first nuclear clock. Now it has been demonstrated that the technology can also be used to investigate unresolved questions in fundamental physics. Thorium atomic ...

That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum timepiece ...

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Honeywell International Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, is awarded a $22,467,124 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the development, build and demonstration of the Compact Rubidium Extended Stability Timing ...

Rising precision demands and GPS/GNSS vulnerabilities are driving the urgent need for secure, reliable synchronization Adtran’s new OSA 3300 Super HP and OSA 3350 Super ePRC+ meet the need for ...