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Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that's off by less than 1 second every 100 million years
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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This New Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won’t Lose a Second for 140 Million Years
On a campus in Boulder, Colorado, time just became a little more exact. Inside the National Institute of Standards and ...
New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...
New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today's standard
The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that ...
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New Atomic Fountain Clock Props Up the World's Time With Pinpoint Precision
F4, the latest cesium fountain clock that now stands as one of the most accurate timekeepers in the entire world.
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Clocks ticking more regularly
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
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Redefining the second: Optical atomic clock achieves record accuracy in comparison measurement
The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency ... some are 100 times more accurate than cesium clocks. They will therefore become the future basis for the worldwide definition ...
New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time
According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and ...
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Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction
A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...
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Shimadzu’s super accurate clock eyed for quake prediction
which carries a price tag of 500 million yen ($3.3 million), is up to 100 times more precise than the cesium atomic clock that is currently used for time definition. But super accuracy is not the ...
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New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today's standard
This shift means timekeeping could become 1,000 times more accurate than today's standards. Researchers at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany have pushed atomic clocks into ...