A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around ...

Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon, disrupting the agency’s atomic clock.

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as ...

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) say they have created the most accurate atomic clock to date — one that can measure time down to the 19th decimal place.