With BIPM and other NMIs currently focusing on the digitalisation of the international system of units - the 'SI', the research proposed an XML schema, which, together with online access to a database ...
There are not many things you can get Facebook, Google, the United States, France, and Linus Torvalds to agree on, but one of them has come to pass. A near-unanimous vote on Friday in Versailles, ...
Once a year, a century-old ritual unfolds at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) outside Paris. It takes place in the basement of the BIPM’s main lab building, which houses a vault ...
Optical clocks have evaluated the latest 'one second' tick of the International Atomic Time (TAI) and provided these data for adjusting the tick rate of TAI. Optical clocks of the National Institute ...
Scientists have generated a real-time signal of an accurate time scale by combining an optical lattice clock and a hydrogen maser. The signal generated in this optical-microwave hybrid system ...