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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By electroplating thorium onto steel, they achieved the same results as years ...

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A power outage on Dec. 19 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colo., disrupted operation of the NIST-F4 atomic clock. Hurricane force winds and dry ...