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New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...
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This New Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won’t Lose a Second for 140 Million Years
Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not with the sound of gears or bells, but with the quantum pulse of cesium ...
New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time
According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and ...
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US scientists debut atomic clock that stays true for 100 million years straight
Marvel’s Time Variance Authority (TVA) would probably call dibs on this atomic clock if they could! The NIST-F4 atomic clock, ...
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10 Best Desktop Atomic Clocks
Atomic Digital Clock Auto Set (no back light) - Using radio frequencies broadcast from NIST’s Colorado , the clock will automatically set to the correct time. Automatically adjusts to Daylight ...
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The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory
From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments ...
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Atomic Weapons and American Policy
The trouble then is just this: during this period the atomic clock ticks faster and faster ... For it is pretty much the same information, the same rough set of facts, that both our people and our ...
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Webb Telescope makes incredible discoveries but may go dark
Along with researching gravitational waves, Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ...