As the fall semester progresses, exciting discoveries continue to emerge across academia. This week’s highlights include a ...

Researchers have created a device that promises to revolutionize everything from GPS navigation to our understanding of the ...

When visitors step inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan, they’re faced with a photo of a large clock, hands ...

Reckoned by atomic seconds, however, Earth’s full journey around the sun took 31,622,401.14. As a result, two additional ...

Never has a nickname been so appropriate as the one bestowed on Gene Hoglan: The Atomic Clock.

The threat posed by nuclear weapons has not faded, according to youth leaders who have attended a global conference in ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due to time-dilation effects.

Specifically, Mesa Quantum is building "chip-scale atomic clocks" and other miniaturized quantum sensors, which can measure ...

The subtle changes in time due to gravity’s denser passage on the Earth’s surface are a major reason why experts call for the moon to be given its own time zone — as even the planet’s best atomic ...

Brace yourselves because now, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has reset the Doomsday Clock, moving it even closer ... just ...

Precision instrument: Optical lattice clock ... the age of the universe. The high precision of OLCs gives them the potential to unlock technologies that can be used to sense quantities such as ...