From phone networks to navigation systems, even the smallest deviation can ripple far beyond the place where it begins. Last week, a brief technical failure in the United States exposed just how ...

Time will no longer be imposed upon us by a cesium fountain clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,” says experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, who is leading the initiative in ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States. Reading time 2 minutes The official standard time of the United ...