Earth is set to break records with July 9 marking the shortest day ever recorded, shaving off 1.3–1.5 milliseconds due to ...

Because they can enumerate one second up to around 18 decimal places, scientists expect optical clocks will become the ...

The rotation of the planet has increased since 2020, and the position of the Moon will make Earth spin faster on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.

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

Boffins think this summer the Earth is suddenly spinning faster as a result of the moon’s position and this celestial ...

Knowable Magazine reports on attosecond science, revealing how scientists study atomic interactions at unbelievable speeds to ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

Learn how laser tech, 3D printing & bio-materials are reshaping off-Earth construction for lunar & Martian habitats.

The Western artifacts section connects shoppers to Texas’s frontier past in tangible ways. Genuine cowboy gear – from worn leather chaps to spurs that once jangled across wooden boardwalks – offers ...

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, or so they say. How to understand that aphorism when applied to a presidency mired ...

In this work, a rubidium fountain clock through an 84km commercial optical fiber link was used to steer the atomic time scale generated by a clock ensemble with 2 hydrogen masers and 8 high ...

This paper presents a method to enhance the stability of atomic clock ensemble time scale by using weighted moving average filter. Compared with Kalman filter, the weighted moving average filter has ...