The Department of Defense has awarded quantum technology firm Infleqtion an $11 million contract to help it speed up the ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a Chicago-based group, updates the clock yearly, keeping tabs on existential ... declaring ...

Scientists are developing nuclear clocks using thin films of thorium tetrafluoride, which could revolutionize precision ...

Telling time in space is difficult, but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing relativity to ...

When the clock strikes noon on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will once again be given launch authority over the U.S.’s ...

Reported recently in a new study published in Nature, a team of researchers, led by JILA and NIST Fellow and University of ...

The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer counted down the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, ...

That was back in 2001, when he and his colleague Christian Tamm proposed a device with the potential to be even more precise and portable than the world’s best atomic clocks. Peik’s estimate ...

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 ...

The research development project is titled "Space–time information platform with ... clocks that will improve the accuracy of the atomic clocks used in the Global Navigation Satellite System ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece that warns of a catastrophic global event, is ticking closer to midnight than ever ...