Physicists fire up strontium atomic clock
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+/- one second per 200 million years US physicists are rather pleased with themselves having perfected a clock "so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years", Reuters reports.â¦
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Researchers are developing tiny atomic clocks that could be made using standard semiconductor processes and slipped into cellphones, hand-held computers and global positioning system receivers.
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The world's biggest collider hopes to create a smorgasbord of exotic particles, from the so-called God particle to dark matter and maybe even miniature black holes. John Borland goes to the edge of theory.
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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U.S. physicists have made a clock so  accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more  than 200 million years, a finding sure to please even the most  punctually minded.
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Europeâs first satellite-borne rubidium clocks have been in orbit for over a year.
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Twenty years ago this month, nearly 2,000 physicists crammed into a New York Hilton ballroom for the âWoodstock of Physics.â
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A team of astronomers steps up a project which one day could preserve the Earth from annihilation.
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Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for revealing three decades ago how forces in the atomic nucleus keep it from flying apart -- a discovery that has given scientists
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High-shutter-speed photography has come a long way from Muybridge's galloping horse in 1887 and even from Edgerton's strobe work in the 1950s and '60s. Milliseconds are an eternity compared to the attosecond images of electron drift we see today, if you get our drift.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 9--MANATEE -- As people get ready to set their clocks ahead one hour  this Sunday, local companies were scrambling this week to make sure computers  and servers remember to do the same.   Under a new U.S.
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Researchers say they have found the chemical switch that triggers the mechanism regulating body clocks.
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A team of Washington scientists are pioneering the concept of the Mag-beam as a technology that could significantly shorten the time it takes to travel to other planets. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Only 12 years old, the field of ultracold physics is already leading scientists to discoveries that seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. Think quantum supercomputers and modeling the big bang.
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Scientists give details of a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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At NIST's Time and Frequency lab in Colorado, scientists build precision clocks from elements like mercury and ytterbium. The instruments harness general relativity to detect a range of conditions and situations, from heart defects to subterranean oil fields. Just don't ask them what time it is.
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UK scientists hope to use ultra high power lasers to produce almost limitless energy.