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Mary Nichols
Mary Nichols is a retired research hydraulic engineer with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a PhD in ...
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Edward Landa
Edward R. Landa is an adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland-College Park, and a scientist (emeritus) with the US Geological Survey.
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World’s most accurate atomic clock uses 2-mile laser beam to track time precisely
The laser beam traveled 3.6 kilometers (over 2 miles) via fiber optic links to NIST, where a frequency comb (acting as a “ruler for light”) allowed the aluminum ion clock’s laser to adopt its superior ...
World’s most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam
On July 14, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced their new and improved optical atomic clock ...
World's most precise clock achieves 19-decimal accuracy with aluminum ion technology
There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...
The dark side of time: Scientists develop nuclear clock method to detect dark matter using thorium-229
For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...
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SEANWFZ Real Challenge Is To Stop The Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock was moved forward by one second to 89 seconds before midnight last January, signalling that the world is getting closer to an unprecedented catastrophe. The clock, which considers ...
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SEANWFZ’s real challenge is to stop the Doomsday Clock
THE Doomsday Clock was moved forward by one second to 89 seconds before midnight last January, signalling that the world is ...