For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

NIST confirmed several public time servers lost their atomic reference signal A generator failure interrupted the distribution of America’s primary atomic time scale Some NIST servers responded ...

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The theory was developed by Neils Bohr's great-grandson. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The use of a special type of atom could ...