A new atomic clock is one of the world’s best timekeepers, researchers say — and after years of development, the “fountain”-style clock is now in use helping keep official U.S. time. Known as NIST-F4, ...

Breakthrough could pave the way for next-generation GPS in drones, smartphones and self-driving cars, scientists say.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Asha George, executive director of the ...

The "Doomsday Clock" which represents how near humanity is to catastrophe moved closer than ever to midnight on Tuesday as concerns grow over nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation. The ...

Familiar risks to human existence such as nuclear weapons and climate change were cited by the scientists, along with new ...

NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers, priming the clock to be recognized as a primary frequency standard — ...

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To find out how clock accuracy is verified and which reference is used for comparison, we visited the Belarusian State Institute of Metrology (BelGIM), where most of the national standards are kept.

In the realm of first-world problems, your cheap wall clock doesn’t keep time, so you have to keep setting it. The answer? Of course, you connect it to NTP and synchronize the clock with an ...