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NIST confirmed several public time servers lost their atomic reference signal A generator failure interrupted the distribution of America’s primary atomic time scale Some NIST servers responded ...

Round robin DNS protected many users from localized time failures When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NIST confirmed several public ...

What time is it? A glimpse at your phone or computer will likely reveal a pretty accurate answer. But though time seems constant, we’ve actually been adjusting it for decades—in the form of a leap ...

Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus ...