Turns out it's a pretty important ... they help the world define what time it is, right now, down to the nanosecond. Without these clocks – and the people, technology and procedures around ...

R esearchers have developed a new approach in optical atomic clocks that brings forth a major goal in science: the redefinition of a second. The fundamental unit of time could soon be based on ...

Doubling the internal processing speed of a CPU while maintaining the original clock speed for I/O (transfers in/out of the chip ... and clock tripling. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...

From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has ... While Britain was far from the only nation helping to define time, it played a significant role in its history.