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 restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...
NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The outage occurred during high winds that damaged power lines and triggered ...
"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.
During the outage, some clocks lost connection to NIST’s measurement and distribution systems, resulting in a delay of 4.8 microseconds in NIST UTC, NIST spokeswoman Rebecca Jacobson confirmed. To put ...
A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to ...
The Doomsday Clock currently sits at 89 seconds to midnight in 2025, marking humanity's closest approach to global ...
In many ways, 2025 resembled the Hollywood film Back to the Future—and not only because Donald Trump returned to the White ...
In 2023, the clock moved to 90 seconds to midnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and broke the ...