NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...

A powerful storm in Boulder, Colorado, caused a power outage that knocked the U.S. official atomic clock out of sync, ...

A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around ...

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

Atomic clocks went out of sync after a severe windstorm knocked out power at a Denver laboratory and a backup generator ...

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more accuracy. They ...

Atomic clocks and frequency standards represent the pinnacle of precision timekeeping technology. By harnessing the natural oscillatory behaviour of atoms, these devices deliver unparalleled accuracy ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...