Scientists Built Tiny, Portable Atomic Clocks—and Naturally, They’re Headed for Drones

This breakthrough in precision timing is about the size of your fingernail and only loses one second every 30,000 years.

A New Kind of Atomic Clock Could Redefine the Second

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.
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Entangled Atomic Clock Experiment Could Finally Provide Hints At A Theory Of Everything

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World’s smallest atomic clock could improve drone swarm timing, China team claims

China has unveiled a breakthrough in precision timing with the mass production of the ...
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The most precise clock ever built ticks closer to reality

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...
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Redefining Timekeeping Accuracy with Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock

Researchers are looking for new ways to improve timekeeping because even small gains in stability can help physicists discover subtle physical effects. The thorium-229 nuclear clock is a newer venture ...
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U.S. gets hyper-accurate atomic clock, new time standard

As if timekeeping in the U.S. wasn’t already pretty accurate, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just declared a new atomic clock, the NIST-F2, to ...

Explainer: What is an atomic clock and why it is crucial for navigation satellites

Launched aboard the PSLV–C32, ISRO’s workhorse, and successfully placed into geosynchronous orbit on March 10, 2016, it was ...