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

From data centres to trading floors, precise time is everything. Microchip Technology has launched BlueSky Firewall 2200, to ...

Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical ...

Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

Time can be a controversial business. Who came up with time zones – and why is the International Date Line a bit squiggly?

A tomic clocks, which power GPS, online transactions, and data networks, just became more precise. MIT physicists have developed a technique that doubles the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by ...

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

Inside the microchips powering your devices, atoms aren’t just randomly scattered. They follow a hidden order that can change how semiconductors behave. A team of researchers from the Lawrence ...

The Nobel Prize is considered the "Mount Everest of science." But it faces criticism over how winners are chosen, and may ...

If we were to approach this coldly and callously, like one of those atomic scientists who adjust the Doomsday Clock, it would seem Brian Callahan is edging ever closer to midnight. After a 26–0 ...