New atomic fountain clock joins group that keeps the world on time(nist.gov)

93 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 31 comments

Atomic Clocks(nist.gov)

115 points by teleforce 2 months ago | 66 comments

Future ultra-precise timing links to geosynchronous satellites(nist.gov)

116 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 35 comments

Frequency comb breathalyzer detects Covid with excellent accuracy(nist.gov)

64 points by geox 3 years ago | 3 comments

NIST selects HQC as fifth algorithm for post-quantum encryption(nist.gov)

149 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 102 comments

MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks(news.mit.edu)

88 points by pykello 1 year ago | 39 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers(nist.gov)

402 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 185 comments

NIST news release describing a method of stacking materials on silicon wafers to build photonic chips with lasers that can produce nearly any wavelength.

AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It(quera.com)

24 points by EvgeniyZh 12 days ago | 5 comments

QuEra blog post describing how the company uses AI to automatically lock and tune the lasers in its neutral-atom quantum computer.

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks(nytimes.com)

170 points by gumby 18 days ago | 51 comments

New York Times article on teams in Vienna and Beijing building the first working nuclear clocks based on thorium-229; the capture shows a bot-block page.

ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades(news.cornell.edu)

509 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 136 comments

Cornell Chronicle article announcing that arXiv received over $10 million from the Simons Foundation and NSF to fund upgrades.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

Precision Clock Mk IV(mitxela.com)

489 points by ahlCVA 1 year ago | 118 comments

Mitxela project page documenting the development of the Precision Clock Mk IV, a seven-segment LED clock, with video, shop, and kit instruction links.