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New Atomic Fountain Clock Props Up the World's Time With Pinpoint Precision
F4, the latest cesium fountain clock that now stands as one of the most accurate timekeepers in the entire world.
New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
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.
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This New Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won’t Lose a Second for 140 Million Years
Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not ...
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Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that's off by less than 1 second every 100 million years
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...
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New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time
NIST-F4 measures an unchanging frequency in the heart of cesium atoms, the internationally agreed-upon basis for defining the second since 1967. The clock is based on a “fountain” design that ...
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Clocks ticking more regularly
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
New Boulder atomic clock submitted to track world’s time
According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and help put global time on a more accurate frequency.