Some of the World’s Atomic Clocks Were Off Last Week (by 5-Millionths of a Second)

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

Colorado power outages disrupt atomic clock in Boulder

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

Power outage in Boulder area affects atomic clock, "Time is not broken" NIST says

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

NIST Restores Atomic Clock Precision After Fire-Weather Warning Caused Power Outages

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

Colorado Windstorm Causes 4.8 Microsecond Glitch in Official US Time

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

Atomic clocks missed a beat as NIST warns of inaccurate timestamps

In the latest batch of documents released in the Epstein files there are email exchanges between Ghislaine Maxwell and ...

A Chip that Keeps Time (Almost) Like an Atomic Clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...
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Optical nuclear clock closer to reality with new Thorium-229 laser breakthrough

In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

Counting electrons reveals thorium’s nuclear tick in a solid clock

Researchers develop a method to count thorium-229 nuclear ticks, paving the way for high-precision nuclear clocks and sensors ...

NIST warns that its NIST-F4 atomic clock lost track of time after a power outage

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 ...

Time to go nuclear? Inside the battle to power AI

It is unlikely that many people stop to think about power consumption as they make AI-generated cat videos on their phones.
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Nuclear clocks could use electrical signals to keep time

The emission of photons by excited nuclei has been explored for timekeeping and sensing, but nuclear processes that eject electrons offer practical advantages. Electrons in atoms can exist only in ...