Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the ...
Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But ...
For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking ...
Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise Researchers at MIT say they have ...
Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice (i.e., a grid of laser light). By oscillating between two distinct ...
The 1950s were an interesting time. The "Atomic Age" gave us everything from starburst clocks to the dread of nuclear annihilation and "duck and cover" drills in schools. It was whiplash — one minute ...
With gripping efficiency, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow moves the film towards destruction repeatedly.
"The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow orchestrates an ominous sense of dread in an apocalyptic procedural co-starring ...
Microwave-based cesium atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for timekeeping and are an implementation of the ...
When something dies, a telltale radioactive signal ticks like a natural clock. Discovering it helped us solve all sorts of ...
Thousands of workers are fed around the clock at the nuclear reactor construction site, but according to caterer Somerset ...