Breakthrough could pave the way for next-generation GPS in drones, smartphones and self-driving cars, scientists say.

JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...

Work on the nuclear clock is being carried out by scientists at JILA, led by JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Jun Ye, in collaboration wit ...

The threat of GPS jamming extends beyond aviation. Without GPS, our lives would grind to a halt: in 2017, a government report ...

For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics ...

The second and its definition is fundamental to metrology, the science of measuring things. In fact, the meter, the kilogram, ...

Atomic Digital Clock Auto Set (no back light) - Using radio frequencies broadcast from NIST’s Colorado , the clock will automatically set to the correct time. Automatically adjusts to Daylight ...

En-route to nuclear clocks, researchers have found a resonant mode in thorium atom nuclei with a low temperature coefficient - nuclear oscillators are ...

Feb. 16, 2022 — Physicists have made one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever. ­­ Their instrument, known as an optical lattice atomic clock, can measure differences in time to a ...

Satellite Hosted Multiple Payloads Including NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / March ...

Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Microcomb chips have been developed to miniaturize optical atomic clocks, potentially achieving centimeter-level GPS precision. These chips bridge the gap ...