Timing is everything in modern warfare, where even a nanosecond’s delay can make the difference between hitting or missing a target in a coordinated drone or missile attack. China may now have taken a ...

On March 13, 2026, Isro announced that the atomic clock aboard IRNSS-1F had stopped working, with the satellite completing “its 10-year mission life”. While the phrasing was restrained, the impact is ...

India's indigenous satellite navigation system, Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), is facing scrutiny after reports that an atomic clock onboard one of its satellites has stopped ...

India’s indigenous GPS alternative, NavIC, has suffered setback with the loss of satellite IRNSS-1F after its final atomic clock stopped functioning on Friday. With this development, only three ...

Chinese scientists have engineered a clock so accurate it could lead to a redefinition of the second and an ultraprecise global time standard. The new optical clock is so accurate that it loses or ...

Scientists have created a clock so precise it could redefine the second. The strontium optical lattice clock is one of the most accurate timepieces ever made, capable of measuring seconds to 19 ...

Physicists at CU Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The researchers say the device could ...

Astrid Chevreuil is a visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Chevreuil is a career diplomat with the ...

You can buy all kinds of conventional clocks that have hands and numbers for easy reading. Or, like [Fabio Ricci], you could build yourself something a little more esoteric, like this neat shadow ...

A new social platform for AI agents launched in January and quickly made headlines. Designed to look like reddit, Moltbook is a platform on which agents can interact with one another at scale, ...