For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the climate beat, was “attacks on science and expertise,” which seem likely to continue into 2026.

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

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

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The outage occurred during high winds that damaged power lines and triggered ...

When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos.

A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to ...

C compiler, LustreC, into a generator of both executable code and associated specification. Model-based design tools are ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

In an age where the demand for clean energy is increasingly urgent, a tech startup by the name of Atomic Canyon, in collaboration with Diablo Canyon—the last nuclear power plant operating in ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

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 ...