The watch on your wrist might seem pretty accurate on a day-to-day basis but it’s got nothing when compared to atomic clocks. Scientists use atomic clocks for a variety of purposes, and the more ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...

I was surprised to hear that the Doomsday Clock isn't just a storytelling device Alan Moore made up for Watchmen. The real-life Doomsday Clock is a representation of how close humanity is to ...

Atomic clocks use these frequencies — specifically, absorbing and emitting photons at regular intervals to keep time. They are the most accurate clock we have to measure time in seconds.

In your wrist-watch or wall clock, ... Atomic clocks are already used to control the wave frequency of television broadcasts, in traditional GPS, and as the standard for international timekeeping.

Watch the 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement: The clock has ticked minutes or seconds toward or away from catastrophe over the years. Wars bring it closer, treaties and cooperation further away.

Scientists have developed the most accurate atomic clock – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve services like ...

A month’s worth of varying temperatures and movements, for example, can be enough to knock a quartz watch off its mark by 15 seconds. ... Since the first atomic clock was built in 1949, ...

Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many ...

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal how close humanity is to self-annihilation with the unveiling of this year's symbolic Doomsday Clock. The clock ...

A radio-controlled clock, often inaccurately called an atomic clock by manufacturers, has a radio inside, which receives a signal that comes from a place where an atomic clock is located, so they ...