Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...

Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not ...

Whether you find yourself glancing at a clock on the wall or checking your phone, the time you constantly see is the product of a meticulous system upheld by the world’s timekeepers. In the U.S., a ...

According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and ...

The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that ...

The NIST-F4 atomic clock, recently unveiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, is one of the most accurate timekeeping devices ever built on Earth. This clock ...

A Special Kind of Clock Cesium fountain clocks such as NIST-F4 are a type of atomic clock — a complex, high-precision device that extracts timing pulses from atoms. These clocks play a critical ...