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

Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

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

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.

When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...

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 ...

A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around ...

The affected atomic clocks, mainly hydrogen masers and cesium beams, are essential for determining UTC(NIST), with 10 to 15 of them typically in active use at the Boulder laboratory.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...

LOS ANGELES -- A powerful windstorm that swept through the US state of Colorado last week disrupted the power supply to more ...

A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving ...

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