A new documentary that began airing on PBS this month highlights one of the most surreal stories from World War II: the "Atomic Bowl." ...

Yet even today, very little is known about this matter’s fundamental properties. Although it operates in the background, dark ...

In this work, a rubidium fountain clock through an 84km commercial optical fiber link was used to steer the atomic time scale generated by a clock ensemble with 2 hydrogen masers and 8 high ...

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of ...

MITCHEL FIELD, N.Y., July 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (“FEI” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ-FEIM), a leading provider of precision timing and frequency technology, would like to clarify ...

July 9 was predicted to have a shorter "length of day" than usual due to an increase in Earth's rotation speed. See which ...

The world spins faster for 3 days straight in July and August, prompting experts to monitor Earth's changing rotation.

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...

The history of clocks is a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the pursuit of precision. Explore how ancient civilizations began measuring time and how this led to the creation of the first true ...

July 9 is expected to be one of the shortest days in history, but you won’t notice a difference. The Earth has been moving ...