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The U.S. Wants to Own Time on the Moon: NASA Prepares a Lunar Spindle to Assert Its Dominance
A new era in space exploration is taking shape as NASA, under direct instruction from the White House, prepares to establish ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists1d
India and Pakistan reach ceasefire agreement, with US help. But all not quiet on the front.
The three stories from the Bulletin's archives provide some historical context for a long-simmering conflict that has once ...
Medscape2d
Keep Clocks on Permanent Standard Time, Says Canadian Group
The policy of turning clocks forward by an hour in the spring causes “discrepancies between the circadian biological clock ...
Politico Europe3d
Atomic lobby seizes on Spanish blackout
Spain has rejected claims that more nuclear power would have helped as recriminations erupt over last week’s outage.
Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that's off by less than 1 second every 100 million years
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...
Electronics Weekly4d
Clocks ticking more regularly
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today's standard
The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists8d
A new Iran nuclear deal—without sunset
A Princeton University expert suggests verification methods for a new Iran nuclear deal that would let Iran could have the ...
ZME Science9d
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 ...
New Scientist10d
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 ...
Interesting Engineering10d
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, ...
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 ...