At this price, kids better not be late for class. The city Department of Education is spending millions of dollars on electrical upgrades that include synchronized clocks. At one of many schools to ...

Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic ...

When the chapel bell strikes 10 o'clock, and Joe Yardling jumps up from Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" to realize that his new Elgin watch is apparently ten minutes slow, and that he is exactly ten ...

A group of researchers may have finally found the answer to the mysteries surrounding the perfectly synchronized manner of swinging by two pendulum clocks. The flawless dance of two pendulum clocks ...

(TNS) — In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not ...

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NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate. In 2003, engineers from Germany and ...