The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...

The global atomic clock market, which reached a significant milestone of USD 494.6 million in 2022, is forecasted to surpass ...

Premium Ekkehard Peik, one of the field’s pioneers, says such a clock could be a factor of 1,000 times better than today’s standard atomic clocks. Image: Pixabay FOR THE discerning timekeeper ...

While the first atomic clock was invented in 1949, no nuclear clock has yet been feasible. The simple reason is that it takes much more energy to excite a nucleus into a higher energy state than ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

We normally think of atomic clocks as the gold standard in timekeeping. The very definition of a second — in modern times, at least — is 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to ...