Britain's supercarrier HMS Prince of Wales has become the first surface ship to be equipped with a state-of-the-art atomic clock as it departs for the Exercise Cold Response 2022 NATO joint exercises ...

Since the earliest ships were built, seafarers have tried to find more accurate ways to find their position in the water. In a coming book, “Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude” (Harper ...

It might come as a surprise to such people to realise that at the zenith of Christian civilisation, in the high Middle Ages, no educated person doubted that the Earth was spherical. Dante’s whole ...

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Small timekeeping errors can lead to substantial problems for many applications that depend on precise timing. For example, radio navigation systems, such as GPS, work by comparing the time it takes ...

Not the quartz or battery powered clocks that increasingly populate our desks and walls, but those filled with steel and brass and gears and oil. Their precision amazes me and the metronomic ticking ...