A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

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

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 ...

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers, priming the clock to be recognized as a primary frequency standard — ...

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

The field of optical atomic clocks, in combination with ultracold atoms, has transformed precision timekeeping and metrology. By utilising laser-cooled atoms confined in optical lattices, researchers ...

Atomic clocks went out of sync after a severe windstorm knocked out power at a Denver laboratory and a backup generator ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...