For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ytterbium to create a new type of atomic clock that is both highly precise and ...

Scientists in Xinjiang have created the world’s first crystal that can produce the ultraviolet light needed for future thorium nuclear clocks, which could one day guide submarines and deep-space ...

You can buy all kinds of conventional clocks that have hands and numbers for easy reading. Or, like [Fabio Ricci], you could build yourself something a little more esoteric, like this neat shadow ...

Christina McAllister is a senior fellow and director of the Partnerships in Proliferation Prevention Program and the International Nuclear Security Forum at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC. Prior ...

Eric Horvitz is the Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and an American computer scientist. Horvitz received his doctoral work in computer science at Stanford University. He was elected a member of ...

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, ...