That's why atomic physicists at NASA want to build a more precise, more autonomous atomic clock. Sponsor Message The team hopes a prototype will be ready by late 2025.

That would be a perfect candidate for waking up the ESP8266, connect to WiFi, get the NTP data, send it to the clock chip, then go back to sleep. If that’s still too much drain on the battery ...

This clock changed world history, according to the radio hosts, as it allowed the British to voyage long distances and set up their empire with more accuracy than they had previously experienced.

Doomsday clock remains set at 90 seconds to midnight 01:03. The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds before midnight - the theoretical point of annihilation. That is one second closer than it was set last year.

A Cold War icon, the clock conveys scientists’ views on humankind’s risk of destroying itself. Its current setting: just 100 seconds to midnight. The Doomsday Clock, reset each January ...

A clock network would allow geodesists to compare the ticking of clocks all over the world. They could then use the variations in time to map Earth’s gravitational field much more precisely, and ...