A photo of the atomic clock setup complete with the bisecting cavity. Credit: JILA/Ye Group Historically, JILA (a joint institute established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Over on his secondary YouTube channel, [Jeff Geerling] recently demoed the new Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV. This clock uses GPS to get the current time, but also your location so it can figure out ...

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A compact optical lattice clock with a volume of 250 liters has been developed. The system includes a physics package for conducting spectroscopy on the clock transition within a vacuum chamber, ...

Vladan Vuletić with members of his Experimental Atomic Physics group. From left to right: Matthew Radzihovsky, Leon Zaporski, Qi Liu, Vladan Vuletić, and Gustavo Velez. Every time you check the time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, physicists have been trying to design clocks that can measure tiny durations of time with extreme precision. Quantum ...