Researchers have developed a new approach in optical atomic clocks that brings forth a major goal in science: the ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) broadcasts atomic clock time signals from Fort Collins, Colorado on various frequencies. The WWVB signal on 60 kHz blasts out 70,000 ...

There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading ... and space navigation?Today on the ...

Arthur Godfrey has confessed to a growing interest in “atomic energy and fission, nuclear fission, and all those things.” Fortnight ago he invited Physicist Dr. Wendell C. Peacock to give a ...

If keeping a network of atomic clocks in sync is hard ... the arrival of microwave signals from various extragalactic radio sources (mostly quasars) with a global network of Earth-based radio ...

but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing relativity to navigating down the road. Atomic clocks, such as those used on the Global Navigation Satellite System network, ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even ...