Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...
At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle ...
An atomic strontium clock ticks 430 trillion times per second, tracking time with precision over billions of years and helping scientists study gravity and dark matter.
Superconductive materials can conduct electricity with no resistance, but typically only at very low temperatures. Realizing ...
Quantum timekeeping is supposed to be the ultimate in efficiency, with tiny devices that tick using the rules of quantum ...
The effect, first predicted over 60 years ago and regarding objects traveling near the speed of light, has been lent support ...
There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts ...