A buckyball is a really cool thing - a roughly spherical cage of carbon created by taking sheets of graphene and heating them in special ways.

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 ... and space navigation?Today on ...

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 European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate.

Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many ...

From space, the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a synchronized network, which will support tests of fundamental physics.

“The optical clock community is strongly motivated to obtain the best possible set of measurements before the SI second is ...

A "leap second" will be added on June 30 at midnight Coordinated Universal Time (or 8 p.m. EDT). Leap seconds are added occasionally to help keep the atomic clock synced up with the earth's rotation.

While their results found no differences between the two atomic clocks at all, they did improve their measurements’ boundaries; dark matter signatures may still exist, in other words, just outside the ...

One example is the atomic clock, which uses the quantum properties of atoms to measure time much more accurately than would be possible with conventional clocks.