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

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

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

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

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

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.

A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...

When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...

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

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

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 ...

A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving ...