A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...
Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.
Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as ...
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 ...
The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync ...