For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...

Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a tiny atomic fountain ...

The symbolic Doomsday Clock has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947.

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock.

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. This month, NIST ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...

Atomic clocks will only see a loss of 1 second in accuracy over a period of 10 million years. They are used in multiple ways, including the GPS in your car. Now researchers have found a way to bypass ...

EUROPE — Every clock in your house probably tells a slightly different time. Now picture those clocks as the most precise instruments humanity has ever built, so accurate that they wouldn’t lose or ...

Since 1947 -- after the end of World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War -- the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have kept what they call a "Doomsday Clock." ...

As the world holds its breath, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is set to reveal the 2026 Doomsday Clock time, a ...