Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

A windstorm in Colorado caused a power outage at NIST, disrupting US official timekeeping and causing a 4.8-microsecond lag. Although atomic clocks ran on battery, a backup generator failure affected ...

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian ...

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond. Instead of alchemy, ...

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey — Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST today announced the MSC-CTRL Microsecond Channel Controller IP core, a configurable master controller that gives ASIC and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As we move through 2023, enterprises will increasingly demand that their data “circulatory ...

On today's Planet Money: In high-frequency trading, people program computers to buy and sell stocks in quick succession under certain, pre-defined circumstances. The idea is to profit from fleeting ...

Joshua has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. He's currently playing just about any and every new AAA story-based game. In his free time, he enjoys buying, building, painting, ...