In a video demonstration, Microchip Technology’s chip-scale atomic clocks reveal their low phase noise and application ...

A huge breakthrough decades in the making was made just a few months ago, and already scientists are realizing its potential: A measurement of the gap between the quantum energy states of a thorium ...

Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the ...

Meet the “nuclear” clock: a device that marks the passage of time via minute signals from the nucleus of an atom. A team of researchers led by scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even rewrite ...

Atomic clocks and frequency standards represent the pinnacle of precision timekeeping technology. By harnessing the natural oscillatory behaviour of atoms, these devices deliver unparalleled accuracy ...

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Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...

The world’s first stable deployment of a cold-atom-based atomic clock on a moving maritime platform has been completed. The feat was achieved by the Quantum sensing specialist Aquark Technologies ...

Optical clocks are highly precise timekeeping devices that measure time by tracking the oscillations of light, as opposed to ...

For many years, scientists all around the world have been working towards this goal, now suddenly things are happening very fast: it was only in April that a team led by Prof Thorsten Schumm (TU Wien, ...