A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Have you ever wondered how the GPS in your phone or your car and pinpoint your location with such accuracy? It’s a matter of time atomic time, to be precise. The triangulation of ...

Like the teeth of a comb, a microcomb consists of a spectrum of evenly distributed light frequencies. Optical atomic clocks can be built by locking a microcomb tooth to a ultranarrow-linewidth laser, ...

No audio available for this content. A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the July 2024 issue of GPS World magazine. The Meridian mobile mapping system ...

The NPL has developed a miniaturised Atomic Fountain Clock that promises to make accurate timekeeping technology smaller.

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 ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography ...

(TNS) — In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not ...

Quantum sensing specialist Aquark Technologies has completed a second trial of its AQlock atomic clock system, facilitated by the Disruptive Capabilities and Technologies Office (DCTO) of the UK Royal ...