Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, ...

Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many ...

Earth's rotation is speeding up, leading to shorter days and potential timekeeping adjustments. Scientists predict that by ...

A clock network would allow geodesists to compare the ticking of clocks all over the world. They could then use the variations in time to map Earth’s gravitational field much more precisely, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers, priming the clock to be recognized as a primary frequency ...

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.

The clocks have gone back once again, ending Daylight Saving Time (DST), or British Summer Time, for 2024 – an annual practice long criticised by politicians, doctors and commuters.

The first of the new generation of quantum technologies to be broadly deployed in orbit will be highly precise optical atomic clocks. As earth orbit becomes increasingly crowded, improvement in ...

The new iodine clock isn’t as accurate as an optical atomic clock in the laboratory, trading it off for mobility and robustness. But it is still accurate enough to lose or gain a second only ...

A network of clocks on the moon could work in concert to inform the new lunar time scale, just as atomic clocks do for UTC on Earth. (There will not, Gramling added, be different time zones on the ...