Atomic clocks and frequency standards represent the pinnacle of precision timekeeping technology. By harnessing the natural oscillatory behaviour of atoms, these devices deliver unparalleled accuracy ...

Polish physicists have been aiming to build an optical atomic clock, an extremely precise device with an accuracy of one second in a few dozen billion years, since 2008. The last of the three key ...

By replacing single atoms with an entangled pair of ions, physicists in Germany have demonstrated unprecedented stability in ...

Earlier in March we heard about a quirk of the interconnected continental European electricity grid which caused clocks to lose about six minutes so far this year. This was due to a slight dip in the ...

I used to be able to hear 3kHz easily but as my hair cells fade into the sunset that frequency now seems to be down 3 or 6 dB. As a consequence the high pitched "beep beep" sound on my portable alarm ...

One afternoon, [Sam] was a bit bored and decided he would build a clock. Not wanting to spend any money on the project, he set off to construct his clock using only the components he had on hand – ...

The PCIe (peripheral-component-interconnect express) protocol is highly desirable for communication across backplanes in embedded and other system types. However, for an embedded-system environment in ...