The US Air Force is turning to atomic clock technology to help coordinate swarms of small drones in environments where traditional satellite navigation is jammed or spoofed, according to a new request ...

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more accuracy. They ...

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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. By modifying the trap, the aluminum ion and its magnesium ion partner were able to “tick” unperturbed. Credit: R ...

“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 ...

Quantum sensing specialist Aquark Technologies has completed a second trial of its AQlock atomic clock system, facilitated by the Disruptive Capabilities and Technologies Office (DCTO) of the UK Royal ...

EUROPE — Every clock in your house probably tells a slightly different time. Now picture those clocks as the most precise instruments humanity has ever built, so accurate that they wouldn’t lose or ...

What exactly is a clock? "We have analyzed in principle which clocks could be theoretically possible," says Prof. Marcus Huber from the Atomic Institute at TU Wien. "Every clock needs two components: ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has dramatically enhanced the precision of time measurement with its latest atomic clock, a marvel that defines the very essence of a second.