Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting UPDATED A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup ...

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

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover how this crucial recovery ensures the accuracy of global timekeeping.

Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of ...

NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers, priming the clock to be recognized as a primary frequency standard — ...