For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...

Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as ...

The Internet Time Service operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves much of the Earth, with customers from around the globe. In one month of study alone, just two of ...

NIST is changing the way it broadcasts time signals that synchronize radio-controlled "atomic" clocks and watches to official US time in ways that will enable new radio-controlled timepieces to be ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology building in Boulder, Colorado, houses lasers and quantum physics that unlock far more than the passage of time. NIST shares the building with the ...