The new clock is so reliable that it would be off by less than a second if it had started running 100 million years ago, ...

A team of researchers from TU Dortmund University, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Nottingham has ...

A single trapped ytterbium ion can be used to simulate complex changes in the energy levels of organic molecules interacting ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...

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 ...

a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not with the sound of gears or bells, but with the quantum pulse of cesium atoms. So precise is its rhythm that, had it been running when ...

by measuring the unchanging frequency in the heart of cesium atoms. NIST said that if the F4 atomic clock had started ticking 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were abundant on Earth ...

In the U.S., a new atomic clock called NIST-F4 has already proven to be one ... The Golden Standard of Timekeeping NIST-F4 is a cesium fountain clock, which is considered the cream of the crop — there ...

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China aims to complete its emergency management system for atomic energy accidents in order to support the sound and sustainable development of the atomic energy industry, according to a draft law ...

Developed by ESA in collaboration with European industry led by Airbus, ACES carries the most accurate atomic timepieces ever launched into space: PHARAO, a cesium-based fountain clock developed ...