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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 ...

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While computer chips keep shrinking, the size of gadgets is still limited, in part, by relatively large pieces of quartz that act as pacemakers for electronic circuits. But within the next few months, ...

This past August, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a development that could deliver a thousand-fold performance improvement over the quartz crystal ...

The quartz clocks which have dominated time-keeping for the past 20 years or so have one problem: their errors, although slight, are cumulative. The quartz clocks which have dominated time-keeping for ...