As sailors in the 17th century learned the hard way, having an accurate clock for navigation is pointless if it is too delicate to carry aboard ship. The same goes for the super accurate optical ...

Over the years, there have been several memory and display technologies that served a particular niche for a while, only to be replaced and forgotten when a more suitable technology came along. One of ...

There is some concern that if there are delays in launching replacement GPS satellites that there could a degradation in the availability and accuracy of GPS (global positioning). There are currently ...

Building a universal clock generator would provide extremely accurate timing for GPS satellites and GPS Ground Segment in order for GPS users to be aware of their Earth position. The types of clock ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. The GPS network might just be Earth’s greatest piece of infrastructure. It’s effectively a collection of ...

There were 300 fewer clocks for Facilities Management to turn back for daylight saving time last weekend. Those clocks in classrooms around campus have been replaced during the past few weeks with ...

From freeze-dried strawberries to memory foam and scratch-resistant glasses, space exploration is the force behind a myriad of life-changing innovations. Now it’s time for a terrestrial innovation to ...

A statistical method, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and tested and implemented with the help of several collaborators, has made the job of analyzing the ...

The Deep Space Atomic Clock in the middle bay of the General Atomics Orbital Test Bed spacecraft. (Image: NASA) While in orbit, the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) mission will use the navigation ...

As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft's essential Global Positioning System (GPS ...

The Talking Clock service is disappearing, and it’s quite possible that few of you will be aware of its passing. One of the staples of twentieth-century technology, the Talking Clock service was the ...

The average user may not notice, but the Global Positioning System (GPS) is more reliable today than it was several years ago. Widely used by the military, first responders, surveyors and even ...