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New atomic clock is 100x better...

March 10, 2012: A new clock is coming to town, an atomic clock, and it’s 100 times more stable than the best atomic clocks we have right now....

How long is a day?

December 22, 2011: I suspect very few people think about how long a day is, and of that number, fewer still wonder if the length of a day changes much, or what sort of things affect the length of the day....

Precise clocks...

September 13, 2011: I was looking for articles about really accurate clocks (OK, I’m using ‘accurate’ colloquially) and came across this one from late 2007, about How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade and I was just intrigued by some of the things I saw in there....

When did that Facebook update happen?

February 16, 2011: Raymond Veloz had exited his vehicle after getting into a minor accident with another motorist around 7:30 a....