NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate ...

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Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic ...

(TNS) — In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not ...

A group of researchers may have finally found the answer to the mysteries surrounding the perfectly synchronized manner of swinging by two pendulum clocks. The flawless dance of two pendulum clocks ...

The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync ...

When the chapel bell strikes 10 o'clock, and Joe Yardling jumps up from Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" to realize that his new Elgin watch is apparently ten minutes slow, and that he is exactly ten ...

Many organisms exhibit circadian rhythms—internal biological clocks that regulate daily changes in metabolism, physiology, and behavior. But from fungus to fruit flies to humans, no common clock genes ...

While most organisms have biological clocks synchronized with the day-night cycle (circadian rhythms), marine animals in tidal areas have also developed circatidal rhythms to align with the tidal ...