Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving ...

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...

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The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) program is to provide warfighters with enhanced radio communications and jam-resistant navigation ...

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up ...

It was 2:30 in the morning when astronautical engineer Todd Ely watched as a little atomic clock—the size of a four-slice toaster—was launched into space on a satellite attached to one of the most ...