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

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

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

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

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

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

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 restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.

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

From freeze-dried strawberries to memory foam and scratch-resistant glasses, space exploration is the force behind a myriad of life-changing innovations. Now it’s time for a terrestrial innovation to ...

It was 2:30 in the morning when astronautical engineer Todd Ely watched as a little atomic clock—the size of a four-slice toaster—was launched into space on a satellite attached to one of the most ...