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

Atomic clocks may be headed into cell phones, thanks to a breakthrough by federal researchers. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the heart of an atomic ...

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

A newly-designed atomic clock uses entangled atoms to keep time even more precisely than its state-of-the-art counterparts. The design could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's ...

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If you want to mark the passage of time, you need something to occur with regularity, repeatedly, that you can use as your measure of keeping time. Throughout history, we've really had two options for ...

“The death of the astronomical second and the birth of atomic time” is how the British physicist Louis Essen described 3 June 1955, when the world’s first practical atomic clock ticked for the first ...

From the beginning of the universe to the present day, time is one of the few things we regard as regular and unchanging. Time works by measuring periods between the past, present and future. But that ...

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On Friday I braved the torrential rains that have been soaking southern England to make the journey from Bristol to Teddington, which is the birthplace of the atomic clock. Situated in the leafy ...

On June 30, the world will receive a gift of time: a single, extra second known as a “leap second.” At that moment, the official atomic clocks that keep Universal Coordinated Time will mark the time ...