A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...
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.
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Brutal 125 mph gusts triggered rare power failure at US atomic clock facility
A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...
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A storm knocked US time off by 4.8 microseconds: How a windstorm briefly messed with America’s clock
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 ...
Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of ...
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, ...
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