The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these ...

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, ...

The NPL's immediate hope is to have a national network by 2030, connecting four atomic clocks across the UK that businesses ... with an incorrect time and location], you cannot always guarantee ...

(Imperial College London) A quantum atomic clock developed at the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will be deployable on military operations in the next five years, according ...

The resulting atomic clocks ... portable nuclear clocks could find their way onto GPS satellites or spacecraft navigation systems. GPS satellites triangulate a device’s location by measuring ...

At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could become 1,000 times more accurate than today's standards.

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F4 measures an ...