Adelaide-based QuantX Labs plans to launch a key subsystem of its optical atomic clock into space to enhance position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities.

In a perspective article recurrently published in the National Science Review, Dr Xin Tong (Innovation Academy for Precision ...

The quantum clock has been developed at the top-secret Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). “This first trial of advanced atomic clock represents a significant achievement in the UK ...

Atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for measuring time and frequency. Among them, optical clocks—using atoms like ...

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A schematic illustration of the experimental setup shows a scanning ... a strange twist in how superconductors behave when they’re reduced to just a few atomic layers. Using powerful magnetic imaging, ...

Work on the nuclear clock is being carried out by scientists at JILA, led by JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Jun Ye, in collaboration with the Technical ...

This isn't the first time atomic batteries have made the news. The first radioisotope battery was developed in 1954 by the Atomic Energy Commission in the US. It used strontium-90 as the ...

The Atomic Spectroscopy Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the definitive measurements of atomic spectra. Spectra are specific sets of colors emitted by ...

For others, it’s the first time you head out without a coat. But most people see it as when we turn our clocks forward by an hour as British Summer Time (BST) kicks off. We ‘Spring Forward ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is discussing plans to eliminate an entire team responsible for publishing and maintaining critical atomic measurement data in the ...