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Scientists Build a Better Clock—With Lasers

One step closer to clock that could redefine the second

(Newser) - Scientists are one step closer to officially replacing those clunky old atomic clocks (accurate to one second every 100 million years—how did we even put up with such vagueness for so long?) with cutting-edge optical lattice clocks (accurate to one second every 300 million years—finally!), the BBC...

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