Sommarøy’s time-free zone was, in a sense, an attempt by residents to reclaim their connection to a more natural measure of time. After all, every year, the island experiences roughly 1,656 hours of ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has assured the country that "time is not broken", after a power ...

We’re once again approaching the annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock. Last January, the Science and Security Board of the ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

Abstract: This paper presents the development of a MEMS-based reflection-type vapor cell combined with metasurfaces, which function as essential optical components for a microfabricated atomic clock.

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

In the 80th year of the nuclear age, with just 89 seconds left on the Doomsday Clock, every nuclear challenge is trending in ...

AI is already sufficiently robust that it introduces new global risks and exacerbates existing threats. Its development is ...