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New Technique Could Make Atomic Clocks More Accurate

Today's best atomic clocks are based on the natural oscillations within a cloud of trapped atoms. As the atoms oscillate, they act as a pendulum, keeping steady time. A laser beam within the clock, directed through the cloud of atoms, can detect the ...

Quantum Record! 3000 Atoms Entangled in Bizarre State

One key application of quantum entanglement is to enable extraordinarily precise atomic clocks, which are vital to GPS. "Today's atomic clocks have reached an almost unimaginable level of accuracy — the best would be less than a minute off if they ran ...

Traders Bank On Server Switch Hybrids For Performance Boost

On the CPU front, processor clock speeds are more or less flatlined at around 3.5 GHz, depending on the architecture, and that means companies can't push performance on single-threaded applications much harder. Aspects of trading In prior ...

Dream Teams

In the Internet age, where enthusiasm and loyalty can be measured in terms of media minutes consumed, the best kind of customer is not the polymath with a wry disposition and an ability to charm the in-laws but, rather, a junkie. Primordial sports ...

Thousands of atoms entangled with a single photon

Today's best atomic clocks are based on the natural oscillations within a cloud of trapped atoms. As the atoms oscillate, they act as a pendulum, keeping steady time. A laser beam within the clock, directed through the cloud of atoms, can detect the ...

All 109 Sleater-Kinney Songs, Ranked

In 1995, the Olympian monolith that is Sleater-Kinney rose and went on to wreak blissful havoc on rock fans' eardrums (and hearts) for the next ten years. The trio's raw (but never undercooked) early albums received that rare combination of attention ...

Whovianism: Doctor Who As A Religion?

An atomic clock carried on a fast military aircraft slows down relative to it's twin left on the ground. "Never give up, never give in" is a good way to (sometimes) lose all your troops and not be able to fight another day when the odds favor your ...

Nuclear France’s Sun Power Record Leaves Utilities in the Shade

“This is the biggest revolution since the nuclear reactors were built in the 1970s,” said Josef Pospisil, an analyst at Fitch Ratings in London ... up,” said Oddo’s Boujard. “Time will tell which approach is best.” European utilities ...

Blu-ray reviews: Manhattan: Season One, Singles, The Imitation Game and Wild

Manhattan: Season One (Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Not Rated, $49.97) — The dramatic events leading up to the United States detonating the first atomic bombs were chronicled ... the Blu-ray collection is a rental at best, especially considering its ...

Iran calls nuclear deal into question

The outline was seen as a major breakthrough in a 12-year international crisis over Iran's nuclear programme, which Western powers allege is a quest to build an atomic weapon ... Washington's top allies in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are ...

Overnight News Digest: "Reach Out and Touch" Edition

America once again ranks among the top five nations in the world—in executions ... not 100 (the previous record), but 3,000 atoms with a single photon, opening the door to atomic clocks more accurate than ever. If a photon in a pulse interacted with ...