Alarm clocks that actually wake you up after daylight savings ends

With days getting darker, you need an alarm clock that is reliable. Check out these sunrise alarm clocks and digital, ...
New Atlas

World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

World’s most precise mobile atomic clock to lose just one second in 15 billion years

Scientists in Germany have unveiled that the world’s most precise mobile atomic clock is so accurate that it will be off by ...
Earth.com

New atomic clock has doubled its timekeeping accuracy by reducing quantum noise

MIT researchers double the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise with an innovative laser technique.
New Atlas

World's most accurate atomic clock off by 1 second every 30 billion years

Scientists have developed the most precise and accurate atomic clock to date – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve ...
AOL

New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today's standard

The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could ...
Nature

‘Nuclear clock’ breakthrough paves the way for super-precise timekeeping

Physicists have demonstrated all the ingredients of a nuclear clock — a device that keeps time by measuring tiny energy shifts inside an atomic nucleus. Such clocks could lead to vast improvements in ...
FOX31 Denver

New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time

DENVER (KDVR) — It is said that time is relative and passes differently depending on an observer’s relative motion and gravitational potential. Although some would argue time is a construct, it does ...
Inverse

Physicists Are Closer Than Ever to Creating A Nuclear Clock That Could Change Physics Forever

The nucleus of an atom is now the modern version of sand flowing through an hourglass. Researchers have spent 15 years trying to increase accuracy in timekeeping. The U.S. standard currently relies on ...
ExtremeTech

Poland's new optical atomic clock will keep better time than all previous clocks

Poland has just started up one of the few optical atomic clocks in the world that puts old cesium fountain atomic clocks to shame. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...
NPR

To explore deep space, we'll need better clocks. Here's why

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...
Government Technology

How an Atomic Space Clock Could Help Chart Land on Earth

(TNS) — In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not ...