The world's first nuclear clock can detect changes in nature’s fundamental constants

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

World’s first nuclear clock to answer physics’ fine-structure constant mystery

A team of researchers in Austria has recently demonstrated that the world’s first nuclear clock could help answer whether the ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

World clocks may lose a second as Earth spins faster

If you don't like adjusting your clocks twice a year due to daylight savings time, then you're not going to like the latest news coming out of the science world. For the first time in history, world ...
Scientific American

The World’s First Nuclear Clock Is Finally Ticking

To measure time, you need a constant rhythm. For eons, the regular movements of the sun and moon have set the pace for all of life on Earth. But over millennia, humans have sought and found more ...
New Atlas

World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up ...
Hartford Courant

A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks

Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers ...
FOX31 Denver

New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time

DENVER (KDVR) — It is said that time is relative and passes differently depending on an observer’s relative motion and gravitational potential. Although some would argue time is a construct, it does ...
LAist

Climate Change Is Delaying World Clocks' Need For A 'Negative Leap Second'

Climate change has been blamed for many dramatic effects on our planet and our lives. Now it may even affect the measurement of time. You've probably heard of "leap seconds" — the sliver of time ...
Hackaday

Globe-Shaped World Clock Is A 3D-Printed Mechanical Marvel

Time zones are a complicated but necessary evil. Humans like the numbers on the clock to vaguely match up with what the sun is doing in the sky outside. To that end, different places in the world keep ...