For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock. (Courtesy: NPL) A miniature version of an atomic fountain clock has been ...

Unlike other atoms (left), ytterbium-173 (right) has a large nuclear spin and a strongly deformed nucleus whose strong fields interact with the electron shell. This turns forbidden quantum jumps into ...

A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic clocks and ...

The strontium atomic clock measures time so precisely it would not lose a second for 15 billion years, redefining how time can be tracked. Body of Canadian woman, 19, found surrounded by dingoes on ...

Proposals to implement shot clocks in basketball and lacrosse moved forward at the January executive committee meeting. The NJSIAA also advanced two other formulas, and revealed six football teams ...

In the coming years, high school basketball and lacrosse could look very different in the state of New Jersey. On Wednesday, the executive committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic ...

New Jersey is officially on the clock. The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association executive committee moved forward four different proposals for a full membership vote in May, including ...

New Jersey is officially on the clock. Proposals to implement shot clocks in basketball and lacrosse were presented by the NJSIAA advisory committee on Jan. 21 and pushed through by the executive ...

Alternative Time Standard To Be Calibrated By Growth Of Trees… San Francisco Firm Will Offer Novel Financial Instruments Temporally Indexed To Tree-Ring Data We can overcome dehumanization and ...

When I sent Kim Stanley Robinson the short stories we had deemed finalists in the Bulletin’s first-ever short fiction contest, Write Before Midnight, I was a bit apprehensive. The other preliminary ...