Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the ...

Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

A tomic clocks, which power GPS, online transactions, and data networks, just became more precise. MIT physicists have developed a technique that doubles the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by ...

A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the samples.

Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how old the eggs were by measuring accumulated lead and uranium atoms in ...

Google Clock 8.2 appears to fix some of the rendering issues users saw with the app’s Expressive redesign. Google’s working on a slightly tweaked workflow for alarm creation, making date options more ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A local man refuses to let time stand still in Gainesboro, Tennessee. Ray Cockerham started a GoFundMe campaign to fix the Jackson County Courthouse clock that stopped working years ago. New details ...