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

Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction. A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space.

The Most Accurate Clock In The World Can Make Your GPS More Precise And Help Land A Spacecraft On Mars. Story by Melissa Triebwasser • 9mo. Have you heard of optical atomic clocks?

Although this theory appears to improve accuracy exponentially scientists will need to test ... To understand how this kind of clock would work, it helps to go back to the basics and analyze the ...

Enslaving a clock to another more accurate standard does not make the clock itself more accurate. And as long as that clock is enslaved, it won’t drift a second, not even in “158 million years ...

Atomic clock scientist Jun Ye of JILA hopes such nuclear clocks can eventually beat today’s most accurate timekeepers. Jason Koxvold This problem is why many scientists believe it is time for a ...

Scientists have developed the most accurate atomic clock – 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 services like ...

Atomic clock accuracy is also critical for navigation: super-precise timing is how the entire GPS system is able to send signals to, say, your iPhone, so that you know where you are within a ...

The strontium optical lattice clock is the first of its kind to be commercially available and will cost about 500 million yen ($3.3 million).

They are the most accurate clock we have to measure time in seconds. A common kind of atomic clock uses a form of cesium called cesium-133. In this case, ...

The most accurate clock in space launches within days and will begin building a highly synchronised network out of the best clocks on Earth. But the project, decades in preparation, will only ...