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Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that's off by less than 1 second every 100 million years
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...
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US scientists debut atomic clock that stays true for 100 million years straight
Marvel’s Time Variance Authority (TVA) would probably call dibs on this atomic clock if they could! The NIST-F4 atomic clock, ...
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This New Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won’t Lose a Second for 140 Million Years
On a campus in Boulder, Colorado, time just became a little more exact. Inside the National Institute of Standards and ...
New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...
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Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction
A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...
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The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory
From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments ...
New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time
According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and ...
New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today's standard
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 ...
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New Atomic Fountain Clock Props Up the World's Time With Pinpoint Precision
In the U.S., a new atomic clock called NIST-F4 has already proven to be one of the most precise timekeepers yet. Assembled by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST-F4 ...
ACES finds its home in orbit
ESA's state-of-the-art timekeeping facility, has been successfully installed on the International Space Station, marking the ...
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New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers, priming the clock to be recognized as a primary frequency ...