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Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that's off by less than 1 second every 100 million years
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...
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New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
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 ...
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Nasa launches atomic clocks to space to prove Einstein's theory about time
advertisement WHAT IS ATOMIC CLOCK? An atomic clock is the most accurate type of clock in the world — it keeps time using the vibrations of atoms, usually cesium-133 or rubidium-87, as its timekeeping ...
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Azerbaijan begins work on Creating National Standard Time
As part of the implementation of the “Socio-economic Development Strategy for 2022-2026,” approved by the President of Azerbaijan, cesium atomic clocks and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) ...
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Azerbaijan Begins Work On Creating National Standard Time
As part of the implementation of the “Socio-economic Development Strategy for 2022-2026,” approved by the President of Azerbaijan, cesium atomic clocks and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite ...
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Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction
The Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES ... To generate an accurate clock signal, PHARAO spews a fountain of caesium atoms cooled to near absolute zero and observes their interaction with ...
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NASA's SpaceX CRS-32: Atomic Clock, Plant DNA Aboard
These new physics effects may manifest themselves in small deviations from Einstein's prediction. The ACES (Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space) investigation is an ESA (European Space Agency) mission that ...
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DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency
According to a recent press report, the Energy Department has identified 8,500 employees who are “nonessential” and therefore vulnerable to being laid off by Elon Musk’s chainsaw-welding wrecking crew ...
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Australia to launch optical atomic clock technology into space
QuantX personnel conducting environmental testing on the optical frequency comb, which is a key optical atomic clock technology that will be launched into space for testing. (QuantX Labs ...
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Space testing for Australian atomic clock tech
QuantX Labs will launch a key sub-system of its optical atomic clock on a SpaceX mission in December. Australia’s QuantX Labs is gearing up for a major milestone in Australian space technology ...
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'Stop the clock': GOP, Dems come together to end Daylight Saving over health, economic risks
In 1957, rockabilly singer Bob Ehret repeated, "We’ve got to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you" — and in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the ...
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Scientists discover new way to keep quantum spins coherent longer
This research specifically examined the decoherence of hot cesium spins ... states in hot atomic vapors. It lays the groundwork for future advancements in atomic clocks, quantum memory ...