(Adam Gault/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images) Researchers in China have created one of the most precise clocks ever made ...

Chinese scientists create clock so precise it could redefine second - Optical clock measures time using light emitted by electrons transitioning between energy levels ...

The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to ...

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But a new experiment suggests that clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy. Entropy, or disorder, is created each time a ...

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands ...

Gregg Perry has finally found his calling. As a horologist — someone who restores and conserves clocks and watches - the Alloway resident, who recently moved back to South Jersey from Pennsylvania, ...