Scientists have created an atomic clock so precise that it won’t lose or gain a single second in 15 billion years -- roughly the age of our universe. But the clock isn’t just steady, it’s also ...

After the introduction of a new kind of atomic clock, the world’s most expert timekeepers are considering making an update to how we measure a simple second. It would be more accurate, sure. But it ...

Timekeeping in the United States, which was already a pretty precise science involving lasers and atomic particles, just got even more exact. A new atomic clock, so accurate it will lose or gain only ...

Scientists have created an atomic clock that is so precise that it can detect tiny changes in the speed of its ticks depending on whether it is 2 centimeters closer or farther from the center of Earth ...

Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo, Europe's twenty-first century navigation system, also ...

Happy birthday, caesium clock. Now move over. As the atomic clock used to define time itself turns 60, tests are set to begin on a new generation of clocks that are designed to give the caesium ...

Have you ever had a clock that runs a little fast, or a little slow? Well, technically speaking, every single timepiece you've ever owned is off, at least by a little bit. Time is actually such a ...

Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo, Europe’s twenty-first century navigation system, also ...

As if timekeeping in the U.S. wasn’t already pretty accurate, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just declared a new atomic clock, the NIST-F2, to ...

Florida surgeon general echoes feds’ warning about unproven Tylenol-autism link• The Buzz on Florida Politics The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a ...