Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using ...

Iran could be poised to withdraw from an international accord that seeks to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. This follows tensions with the United Nations’ atomic watchdog, compounded by the ...

Iran announced it had built a third nuclear enrichment facility. AFP via Getty Images The censure by the International Atomic Energy Agency, its first in 20 years over Iranian non-compliance ...

Super-precise atomic clocks will likely open a host of possibilities that even we can’t fully imagine, much like how the original adoption of GPS in the 1980s eventually gave us real-time ride ...

From space, ACES will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a synchronized clock network, which will support its main purpose: to perform tests of fundamental physics. But it ...

A meteorite impact site dating back 1.2 billion years has been identified in Scotland, rewriting what scientists know about the UK’s early history.

The universal need to be on time keeps everyone on the move, shaping society into a permanently well-oiled machine. Whether you find yourself glancing at a clock on the wall or checking your phone, ...

Atomic clocks keep getting smaller, lower power, and better—Microchip’s latest chip-scale version leverages EXMO technology to bring its height down to half an inch.

Super-precise atomic clocks will likely open a host of possibilities that even we can’t fully imagine, much like how the ...

In 1967, the world's timekeepers, an intergovernmental body called the General Conference on Weights and Measures, agreed to define time using atomic clocks, rather than by the Earth's rotation.

The NPL's immediate hope is to have a national network by 2030, connecting four atomic clocks across the UK that businesses can plug into for secure accurate timekeeping and for developing new ...

LONDON (dpa-AFX) - A top secret lab in the UK has developed an atomic clock using quantum technology, which will make military operations more secure.Developed at the top-secret Defense Science ...