He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to GPS and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert ...

Operationally, the Israeli campaign was indeed impressive. For 12 days, the Israeli air force ruled Iranian skies without ...

Last month, a consortium of 69 scientists from across Europe and Japan completed the largest and most coordinated comparison ...

Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing ...

Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...

Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is proud to welcome Melanie Mitchell to its Science and Security Board (SASB). The SASB is a select group of globally recognized leaders with a specific focus on ...

First, the capacity to accurately characterize the stability of different clocks using the SDR is demonstrated. Experimental results then establish the ability to steer an oven controlled crystal ...

For The Atlantic ’s August issue, “Eighty Years on the Edge,” Atlantic writers examine the past eight decades of life in the Atomic Age. Publishing today are two essays from the issue ...