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The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...

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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.

Until 2020, the shortest "length of day" ever recorded by atomic clocks was -1.05 ms, meaning that Earth completed one daily rotation in 1.05 milliseconds less than 86,400 seconds.