Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic ...

The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...

Atomic Digital Clock Auto Set (no back light) - Using radio frequencies broadcast from NIST’s Colorado , the clock will automatically set to the correct time. Automatically adjusts to Daylight ...

This is a “caesium fountain”, called Nist-F3, and it is the tuning fork for America’s official atomic clocks, the ur-clock. It rings not sound but microwaves. The best caesium clocks count ...

The team's advancement could pave the way for new kinds of optical atomic clocks, devices that track ... a joint research ...

For atomic-clock architects, it's not just about building ... even at the microscopic scale," said NIST and JILA physicist Jun Ye. "It's pushing the boundaries of what's possible with timekeeping." ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) broadcasts atomic clock time signals from Fort Collins, Colorado on various frequencies. The WWVB signal on 60 kHz blasts out 70,000 ...

NIST’s research supports innovation in diverse industries, impacting everything from smart grids and electronic health records to atomic clocks and nanomaterials. NIST’s mission is to promote ...

Our research focuses on the development of optical clocks using ultracold atomic systems. By tightly confining ytterbium ... interactions to advance state-of-the-art capabilities of the NIST ytterbium ...

Accurate frequency measurements of a narrow optical clock transition in ... develop increasingly accurate atomic clocks. The spectral resolution achieved in the NIST experiment is higher than ...