(CNN) — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists at King's College London reveal. The paper is published in the journal ...

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URBANA, Ill. — Three atomic clocks, each no bigger than a grain of sand, suspended at different heights around a city. But these aren’t ordinary timepieces; they’re quantum devices that exist in ...

NIST physicist David Hume holds the newly modified ion trap for the aluminum ion clock. Credit: R. Jacobson/NIST Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United ...

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There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based on a trapped ...

“Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...