On a campus in Boulder, Colorado, time just became a little more exact. Inside the National Institute of Standards and ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched ACES, or the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space ... scientific community and will surely play a key role in pushing towards the re-definition of the standard ...

We normally think of atomic clocks as the gold standard in timekeeping. The very definition of a second — in modern times, at least — is 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to ...

The optical lattice clock, which carries a price tag of 500 million yen ($3.3 million), is up to 100 times more precise than the cesium atomic clock that is currently used for time definition.

But that was changed in 1967 to a definition based on energy levels in atoms – the so-called “atomic clock” – as the Earth’s rotation can slow down and speed up depending on movements of ...