It doesn’t look like much now. But by the time it’s finished, it will be a whirring, clicking, whooshing, flashing timepiece powered by the pull of the Earth. It is the Great Gravity Clock, a $600,000 ...

The scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Measurement have one big job: to measure things as accurately as possible. To do that, they build a lot of big and complicated machines, ...

Researchers at at JILA, a joint institution of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an atomic clock that can detect the ...

Traditional mechanical clockmaking is an art that despite being almost the archetype of precision engineering skill, appears rarely in our world of hardware hackers. That’s because making a clock ...