AURORA, Colorado—Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force are testing several new technologies aboard the next GPS III ...

Complacency about the serious challenges the world is facing is not an option. But the idea that we are almost at the point ...

Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical ...

To find out how clock accuracy is verified and which reference is used for comparison, we visited the Belarusian State Institute of Metrology (BelGIM), where most of the national standards are kept.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable, ...

Wall Street was caught off guard on Thursday, Feb. 26, as shares of IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) rallied, climbing over 19% to break the ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based directly on the interactions between their protons and neutrons. Published in ...

Physicists have experimentally demonstrated a sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an ultrathin material that for the first ...

Daylight saving time 2026 will begin in just a few weeks in the United States, and most Americans will need to adjust their clocks. The clocks last changed on Sunday, November 2, 2025, and will shift ...

The erosion of the rules-based global order has been a constant topic of discussion in the last few years. One of the most serious illustrations of that trend is the end of half a century of bilateral ...

In the wee hours of Sunday morning, March 8, millions of clocks will automatically move ahead one hour as the United States, at least much of it, moves into daylight saving time for another year. If ...

Check this out, from the National Physical Laboratory, the UK's measurement standards specialists - a miniaturised atomic fountain clock aiming to make the world’s most accurate timekeeping technology ...