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If GPS goes dark, this atomic clock could keep the world running

This Portable Atomic Clock Maintained Accurate Time on a Rolling Ship at Sea In A Nutshell Australian physicists built a ...
Science Daily

Researchers simplify design of optical atomic clocks without compromising performance

Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...
WRIC

Best atomic clock

Which atomic clocks are best? The first time zone, Greenwich Mean Time, was established in the late 1600s to assist sailors before the invention of the train and railway in the mid-1800s expanded the ...
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Japanese scientists make ytterbium atomic clock that could detect dark matter

Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which ...
Phys.org

Strontium optical lattice clock exhibits record-high coherence time

Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice (i.e., a grid of laser light). By oscillating between two distinct ...