Des Moines Register

American Communities Fight Existential Threat of Atomic Clock

Alternative Time Standard To Be Calibrated By Growth Of Trees… San Francisco Firm Will Offer Novel Financial Instruments Temporally Indexed To Tree-Ring Data We can overcome dehumanization and ...
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This atomic clock keeps time for 15 billion years

The strontium atomic clock measures time so precisely it would not lose a second for 15 billion years, redefining how time can be tracked. Body of Canadian woman, 19, found surrounded by dingoes on ...
WRAL

Fire-weather alert in Colorado knocked out timekeeping across the internet

A power outage on Dec. 19 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colo., disrupted operation of the NIST-F4 atomic clock. Hurricane force winds and dry ...
The New York Times

Some of the World’s Atomic Clocks Were Off Last Week (by 5-Millionths of a Second)

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...
Gizmodo

Colorado Windstorm Causes 4.8 Microsecond Glitch in Official US Time

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States. Reading time 2 minutes The official standard time of the United ...
AOL

A Chip that Keeps Time (Almost) Like an Atomic Clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...
unr.edu

The most precise clock ever built ticks closer to reality

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...
AZOM

Redefining Timekeeping Accuracy with Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock

Researchers are looking for new ways to improve timekeeping because even small gains in stability can help physicists discover subtle physical effects. The thorium-229 nuclear clock is a newer venture ...
GovCon Wire

IonQ Finalizes Vector Atomic Acquisition to Expand Quantum Capabilities

IonQ, a quantum computing technology company, has finalized the acquisition of quantum sensing firm Vector Atomic. IonQ said Tuesday the all-stock transaction enhances its position as a full-spectrum ...
New Atlas

Physicists turn to nuclear clocks in the hunt for dark matter

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...
KSL

Dinosaur eggs from China could be around 86 million years old, according to 'atomic clock' dating

CHINA — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an "atomic clock" method to date the ...