JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...

For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics ...

The crisis stemmed from internal trades involving low-liquidity instruments, such as 3- to 6-year yen and 8- to 10-year dollar borrowings. Rather than directly hedging foreign currency borrowings and ...

Optoelectronics are promising devices that combine optical components, which operate leveraging light, with electronics, which leverage electrical current. Optoelectronic systems could transmit data ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...

Scientists have announced that they will turn off one additional instrument on each spacecraft to conserve energy. The twin Voyager probes launched in 1977 to take advantage of a once-in-176-year ...

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SEATTLE — A popular Seattle instrument rental business is looking for answers after thieves stole dozens of instruments worth tens of thousands of dollars from their warehouse. "That is just ...

Researchers have used this method with frequency comb lasers to probe the absorption of gas samples at a range of different light frequencies. A frequency comb produces light at a series of very sharp ...