Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

Telecommunications networks: atomic clocks support synchronization at base stations and core nodes, protecting handoffs, latency control, and data integrity in distributed networks. Space and ...

In the realm of first-world problems, your cheap wall clock doesn’t keep time, so you have to keep setting it. The answer? Of course, you connect it to NTP and synchronize the clock with an ...

To find out how clock accuracy is verified and which reference is used for comparison, we visited the Belarusian State Institute of Metrology (BelGIM), where most of the national standards are kept.

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of sunrise and sunset, the phases of the Moon, and the seasons. We left some of ...

Editor’s note: This is part of an “experts comment” series on the expiration of New START. After the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expires this week, it will leave no legally binding ...

Editor’s note: This is part of an “experts comment” series on the expiration of New START. The expiration this week of the New START treaty—the last arms control agreement between the United States ...

Some folks act as if Intel and AMD have killed off the "high-end desktop" or HEDT market, but that's never really been the case. Instead, what happened is that mainstream desktops went from a maximum ...