NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...
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Brutal 125 mph gusts triggered rare power failure at US atomic clock facility
A brutal windstorm in Colorado, packing gusts of up to 125 MPH, knocked out primary power to the National Institute of ...
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"Time Is Not Broken": US Officials Work To Correct Time, After Discovering It Is 4.8 Microseconds Out
"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...
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US official time slowed down by a few microseconds last week due to power outage, watchdog says
Atomic clocks went out of sync after a severe windstorm knocked out power at a Denver laboratory and a backup generator ...
Atomic clocks and frequency standards represent the pinnacle of precision timekeeping technology. By harnessing the natural oscillatory behaviour of atoms, these devices deliver unparalleled accuracy ...
At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more accuracy. They ...
For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...
Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...
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