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Know Your Olympic Sport: Michael Phelps (i.e. Swimming)
Michael Phelps M@rcopako (CC Licensed) Every four years, we watch. We marvel at badminton and wonder about the modern decathlon. With more than 300 gold medals awarded across 37 disciplines, our lives...
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In Test of Relativity Theory, Superaccurate Atomic Clocks Prove Your Head...
Different Times at Different Heights The higher you go, the slower time moves. via Flickr/ ZeroOne (CC licensed)Einstein first figured out that time moves at a different rate depending on how fast...
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Federal Study of Power Grid Might Disrupt The Nation's Clocks
Power Lines Wikimedia Commons Soon, when you sleep through your Monday morning alarm, it may be Uncle Sam's fault. Federal officials are considering an experiment on the nation's electrical grid that...
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A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
The Mayan Calendar If you squint, you can clearly see the part where it says the world will end in 2012. That's right, keep squinting . . . Smithsonian via WikimediaAs the calendar turns over to a new...
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How Do You Tell Time On Mars?
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Fed Up With Sluggish Neutrinos, Scientists Force Light To Move Faster Than...
Four-Wave Mixing In four-wave mixing, researchers send "seed" pulses of laser light into a heated cell containing atomic rubidium vapor along with a separate "pump" beam at a different frequency. The...
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Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights'...
Givers of Illumination, Keepers of Immaculate Time shainelee via FlickrYour smartphone is probably losing track of time. Most electronics with internal clocks keep them regulated via vibrating...
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Every four years, we watch. We marvel at badminton and wonder about the modern decathlon. With more than 300 gold medals awarded across 37 disciplines, our lives are…
View ArticleIn Test of Relativity Theory, Superaccurate Atomic Clocks Prove Your Head...
Einstein first figured out that time moves at a different rate depending on how fast you’re moving, and depending on how close you are to a gravitational field. And…
View ArticleFederal Study of Power Grid Might Disrupt The Nation's Clocks
Soon, when you sleep through your Monday morning alarm, it may be Uncle Sam’s fault. Federal officials are considering an experiment on the nation’s electrical grid that could interrupt the way your...
View ArticleA Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
As the calendar turns over to a new year, a couple of researchers over at Johns Hopkins University are rethinking the way we tick off the days during our annual trip around the sun. The duo has...
View ArticleHow Do You Tell Time On Mars?
When NASA's new Mars rover lands on the Red Planet this summer, it's safe to assume it'll be some time in the morning or early afternoon at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in…
View ArticleFed Up With Sluggish Neutrinos, Scientists Force Light To Move Faster Than...
Our nation’s official keepers of time and other standards are breaking one of the cardinal rules: They have figured out how to make superluminal light pulses. This…
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Your smartphone is probably losing track of time. Most electronics with internal clocks keep them regulated via vibrating crystals (much like a quartz clock) that keep their timekeeping precise. But...
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DARPA Wants Long-Lasting Super-Precise Portable Atomic Clocks
Military Time for an upgrade Little atomic clocks…
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Know Your Olympic Sport: Michael Phelps (i.e. Swimming)
Brett Zarda looks at the athletes, the water, and the technology Every four years, we watch. We marvel at badminton and wonder about the modern decathlon. With more than 300 gold medals awarded across...
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In Test of Relativity Theory, Superaccurate Atomic Clocks Prove Your Head...
Science Relativity experiment is the most accurate yet Einstein first figured out that time moves at a different rate depending on how fast you’re moving, and depending on how close you are to a...
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Federal Study of Power Grid Might Disrupt The Nation's Clocks
Technology Soon, when you sleep through your Monday morning alarm, it may be Uncle Sam’s fault. Federal officials are considering an experiment on the nation’s electrical grid that… Soon, when you...
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A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
Science No more Leap Years As the calendar turns over to a new year, a couple of researchers over at Johns Hopkins University are rethinking the way we tick off the days during our annual trip around…...
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How Do You Tell Time On Mars?
Science The challenge of synchronizing rovers on Mars with their drivers on Earth When NASA's new Mars rover lands on the Red Planet this summer, it's safe to assume it'll be some time in the morning...
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