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NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Mission Begins

Science & Health

11 months ago

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Mission Begins

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Why NASA Is Sending An Atomic Clock Into Space

Science & Health

1 year ago

Why NASA Is Sending An Atomic Clock Into Space

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Scientists Use Spinning Neutron Stars To Calibrate Atomic Clocks

Science & Health

2 years ago

Scientists Use Spinning Neutron Stars To Calibrate Atomic Clocks

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The European Space Agency is synching up atomic clocks with distant, rapidly spinning neutron stars, called pulsars, according to a release.

Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough To Measure Changes In Spacetime Itself

Science & Health

2 years ago

Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough To Measure Changes In Spacetime Itself

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Science & Health

2 years ago

DARPA Is Funding Time Crystal Research

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

You probably scratched your head last year if you read about time crystals, likely 2017’s most esoteric, widely covered popular science story. Even if you understood how they worked, you might not have known what use they could have. Time crystals, systems of atoms that maintain a periodic ticking behaviour…

Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement

Science & Health

2 years ago

Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Scientists Just Built The Most Precise Clock Ever To Help Understand Our Crazy Universe

Science & Health

3 years ago

Scientists Just Built The Most Precise Clock Ever To Help Understand Our Crazy Universe

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Scientists Break Quantum Record By Entangling 3000 Atoms

Science & Health

5 years ago

Scientists Break Quantum Record By Entangling 3000 Atoms

Sarah Zhang

Quantum entanglement is an odd phenomenon that can connect two or more particles over even vast distances. Scientists have now managed to entangle not two, not 100 (the previous record), but 3000 atoms with a single photon, opening the door to atomic clocks more accurate than ever.

A Look Inside The Observatory Where Time Is Ticking

Gadgets

6 years ago

A Look Inside The Observatory Where Time Is Ticking

Adam Clark Estes

This Atomic Clock Wristwatch Only Loses A Second Every Thousand Years

Gadgets

7 years ago

This Atomic Clock Wristwatch Only Loses A Second Every Thousand Years

Andrew Liszewski

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