Power outage in Boulder area affects atomic clock, "Time is not broken" NIST says

Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

NIST Restores Atomic Clock Precision After Fire-Weather Warning Caused Power Outages

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

NIST warns that its NIST-F4 atomic clock lost track of time after a power outage

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 ...
Phys.org

New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F4 measures an ...
Physics World

Portable optical atomic clock makes its commercial debut

Atoms are the world’s most precise timekeepers – so much so that the second is defined as exactly 9 192 631 770 ticks of a caesium-based atomic clock. Commercially-available versions of these ...
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 ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

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 ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

A chip that keeps time (almost) like an atomic clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...
New Atlas

World's most accurate atomic clock off by 1 second every 30 billion years

Scientists have developed the most precise and accurate atomic clock to date – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve ...
NPR

To explore deep space, we'll need better clocks. Here's why

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...