The best timepieces tend to be fragile, but a device based on iodine threads the needle between precision and practicality.
most states are ending or at least reducing their restrictions on outdoor events. With major airshows like the “World War II Weekend” in Reading, Pennsylvania given the green light to proceed ...
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A team of physicists and engineers at Vector Atomic, Inc., a maker of navigation and communications equipment, has developed ...
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Atomic clocks, the paragon of precision time measurement, might soon become even more accurate thanks to a quantum process ...
Why Trust Us? Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have created an atomic clock using lasers and strontium atoms that’s incredibly accurate—only losing one second every 40 ...
The time is nigh for nuclear clocks. In a first, scientists have used a tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into ... frequency of the laser’s light. To home in on that frequency, scientists ...