New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today's standard. Joshua Shavit. May 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM. ... The clock’s laser must match the energy jump of the indium ions exactly.

According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and help put global time on a more accurate frequency.

Stemming from section 123 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, the agreements allow for the transfer of nuclear material, equipment, components, and information for atomic research and civil nuclear ...

2002: The clock moves forward to 7 minutes to midnight, following the U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and rising nuclear tensions in the wake of 9/11. 2007: The Bulletin ...

The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic nuclear weapon. The total wildfire fatalities of 29 people (to date), however ...

The Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 by atomic scientists as a way to keep track of the nuclear threat, is ticking closer to midnight. And… it’s no longer solely about nukes. “It’s 89 seconds to ...

A low-noise chip-scale atomic clock (LN-CSAC), the SA65-LN from Microchip, features a profile height of less than 0.5 in. (12.7 mm). Aimed at aerospace and defense applications where size, weight, and ...

(AP) — Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, in Washington.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been. The ...

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, second from left, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists member Robert Socolow, second from right, reveal the Doomsday Clock, set at 89 seconds to ...