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The best atomic alarm clocks are synchronized to the NIST station in Colorado and have your local time zone setting.
An atomic clock that could transform deep-space travel has successfully completed its first test run in space. NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, which launched on a satellite in June 2019 ...
Atomic clock scientists suggest that a minute should be shortened to 59 seconds to re-align atomic clocks with Earth's increased rotation rate.
Those clocks were designed so well that many of them are still around and functioning. One of these 100-year-old self-winding clocks made its way onto my workbench.
So, Burt says, atomic clocks pair an oscillator with a collection of atoms to help keep that frequency stable. (This clock uses mercury, but others have used cesium, rubidium, or strontium.) ...
For more about Holly's Optical Atomic Strontium Ion Clock, check out the OASIC project on NASA's website.- For more about the Longitude Problem, check out Dava Sobel's book, Longitude.
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The Deep Space Atomic Clock by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a technology demo aimed at self-flying spacecraft.
This is the Deep Space Atomic Clock, which represents the first generation of a novel class of spaceworthy atomic clocks that could eventually usher in a new era of deep-space exploration.
Atomic scientists kept their “Doomsday Clock” set at 90 seconds to midnight, citing threats from multiple wars, nuclear weapons and climate change as factors.
Atomic scientists moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine and other factors underlying the risks of global ...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight, one second more than the last two years, attributed to threats posed by climate change and artificial ...