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

A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma -- the first matter ever to be present -- during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the ...

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 ...

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