NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more accuracy. They ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...