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 ...

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

A pair of experimental atomic clocks based on ytterbium atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a new record for stability. The clocks act like 21st-century ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

BOULDER, Colo.- An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single ...

The civilian standard for timekeeping has increased its accuracy by a factor of three with the announcement Thursday by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder of a new atomic ...

The scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Measurement have one big job: to measure things as accurately as possible. To do that, they build a lot of big and complicated machines, ...

Earlier this week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) officially launched an atomic clock that is three times as accurate as the one used today to do everything from synchronize ...