An atomic clock on a chip dramatically changes this situation. Put a buckyball timepiece into a chip component that also stores the time of other timepieces when it receives them, and the ...

There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading ...

Optical atomic clocks are extremely delicate devices, and also, ... The NIST team transmitted the pulses from one location toward a mirror 0.62 miles (1 kilometer) away; ...

Scientists are inching one step closer toward redefining the length of a second. To do that, they're using atomic clocks. Atomic clocks, which look like a jumble of lasers and wires, work by ...

NASA‘s Deep Space Atomic Clock is almost ready to revolutionize time-keeping on space missions with technology that “will enable one-way navigation” and make “near-real-time navigation of ...

But NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is up to 50 times more stable than standard atomic clocks ... space crew rely on refrigerator-size clocks on Earth to pinpoint their location and set their ...

An atomic clock that could revolutionize space travel just passed ... atomic clocks on the ground measure that round trip time — which can take hours — to pinpoint a spacecraft’s location.

Optical atomic clocks can improve time and location accuracy by a factor of ten, enhancing applications such as GPS systems, personal computers, and mobile phones. However, their current size and ...

Atomic clocks are already in use in space, and we are reliant on the technology in our day to day lives. GPS satellites, for example, use atomic clocks to measure location extremely precisely.

The DSAC relies on a relatively new atomic clock technology, first described in a paper published in 2006, that measures the behavior of a single trapped, laser-cooled mercury ion.

“Atomic clocks are an integral component in modern technology and impact our daily routines from computing and financial transactions to the navigation systems we use in our phones and cars,” said ...