the process can also work to extract lithium and two other critical minerals — rubidium and cesium, which are used in electronics, quantum computing, solar panels, atomic clocks, satellite ...

The story of caesium’s discovery concerns three men – two men who worked in tandem to announce their discovery on May 10, ...

Pollucite resembles quartz and is often associated with lithium-rich minerals ... including in highly accurate atomic clocks, which have become essential components of the internet, cellular ...

Marpaung, Ye and colleagues found that in the optical material lithium niobate ... "SBS can drastically reduce the dimensions of atomic clocks, since SBS allows for miniaturization of the ultra ...

According to Rezaee, the process can also work to extract lithium and two other critical minerals—rubidium and cesium, which are used in electronics, quantum computing, solar panels, atomic clocks, ...

The new clock is so reliable that it would be off by less than a second if it had started running 100 million years ago, ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F4 measures an ...

Whether you find yourself glancing at a clock on the wall or checking your phone, the time you constantly see is the product of a meticulous system upheld by the world’s timekeepers. In the U.S., a ...

At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could become 1,000 times more accurate than today's standards.