Vector Atomic has launched a rack-mounted atomic clock. The company this week announced the launch of Evergreen-30, which it said is the world’s first fully integrated commercial optical atomic ...

One of the biggest challenges in modern physics is uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity. A new experiment may ...

With an optical atomic clock, you may achieve a precision of just a few centimeters [where 1 centimeter is 0.4 inches]," study co-author Minghao Qi, professor of electrical and computer ...

For more about Holly's Optical Atomic Strontium Ion Clock, check out the OASIC project on NASA's website. For more about the Longitude Problem, check out Dava Sobel's book, Longitude.

World’s most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam It measure a second down to the 19th decimal. Andrew Paul Jul 14, 2025 4:09 PM EDT ...

For more about Holly's Optical Atomic Strontium Ion Clock, check out the OASIC project on NASA's website.- For more about the Longitude Problem, check out Dava Sobel's book, Longitude.

Ekkehard Peik, one of the field’s pioneers, says such a clock could be a factor of 1,000 times better than today’s standard atomic clocks.

Nuclear clocks would keep time using a variety of the element thorium, called thorium-229. Most atomic nuclei make energy leaps that are too large to be triggered by a tabletop laser.

Imagine walking into a room where several different grandfather clocks hang on the walls, each ticking at a different pace. Quantum physicists at CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and ...

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

Atomic clocks have served as the world’s most precise means of measuring time for over 70 years, but their reign may be finally coming to an end.