A clock built by a team led by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been estimated to be 41 percent more accurate than the previous timekeeping record holder.

Researchers in Boulder built a new clock that is more precise and accurate than any clock in the world. The discovery has implications for exploring fundamental physics questions, propelling new ...

Don’t panic–there’s no real need to tackle any tricky math to understand this breakthrough. All you need to do is recall some high school lessons that show that everything around you is made of atoms ...

Atomic clocks record time using microwaves to measure the frequency of quantum vibrations of electrons. They are the basis upon which a second is defined. But there’s a new kid on the block, the ...

Time dilation, a captivating concept embedded in Einstein’s theory of relativity, has been experimentally validated on Earth. With the use of ultra-precise clocks, scientists have been able to ...

Atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for measuring time and frequency. Among them, optical clocks—using atoms like strontium or aluminum—have reached staggering levels of accuracy, with ...

An extremely cold gas of strontium atoms is trapped in a web of light known as an optical lattice. The atoms are held in an ultrahigh-vacuum environment, which means there is almost no air or other ...

The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists ...

The About Time clock looks like a plate supported by a cone underneath, and it tells you the time by slowly rolling clockwise. The edge of that plate-like part that’s touching the tabletop is where ...

Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler cars, plus Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and Fiat, are all about to get "hands-off, eyes-off" autonomous driving tech. Yes, you read that correctly, in the future, GPS could ...

(Bloomberg) — If time is money, precision in nanoseconds can be measured in millions of dollars. Shimadzu Corp, a Kyoto, Japan-based precision equipment maker, has started selling a clock which is ...