Streamline Spacecraft Timing Architecture with Microchip’s Radiation-Tolerant, Low-Power, Low-Jitter Six-Output Clock Generator

Spacecraft timing systems must provide highly stable, precise signals for navigation, communications and scientific instruments, even when GNSS signals are weak or unavailable. Designers often rely on ...
Hackaday

VFD Clock Runs On A Single AA

There are lots of different ways to build a clock. [Sciter_] came into the possession of some old calculator parts, and ...

If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick

The Brick — a magnetic, matchbox-sized gadget — has accomplished what no screen-time app has ever achieved. It actually got ...
eLife

SqueakPose Studio: An end-to-end platform for pose estimation and real-time edge-AI deployment

This important work introduces an integrated open-source platform for behavioral acquisition and pose estimation that substantially improves the accessibility and speed of real-time animal tracking ...
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Clock build-off: My design and process

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson shares her design and process from a clock build-off project. He was fooling around on the edge - then his hand suddenly slipped Coffee found to have startling ...
Mental Floss

What Does "Clock It" Mean? The Slang Phrase and Hand Gesture Explained

All it takes is one scroll through X or TikTok, or a conversation with a group of Gen Z friends spilling the tea, to hear the phrase "clock it!" At first, it sounds like someone is asking you for the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Python Cave tours? The ways disease jumps from animals to humans are evolving

In July 2008, a 41-year-old Dutch woman developed a rapidly progressing illness after visiting Python Cave, a shallow groove cut into the Maramagambo Forest in Uganda that is home to thousands of ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Doomsday Clock ticks down to 85 seconds to midnight in 2026—closest ever to apocalypse

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds and now sits at 85 seconds to midnight—the closest the symbolic clock has ...
Physics World

NPL unveils miniature atomic fountain clock

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock. (Courtesy: NPL) A miniature version of an atomic fountain clock has been ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Design Challenges Of Clock Integrity And Clock Jitter

Signal integrity is one of the many challenges faced by chip designers. Deep submicron technologies are unfriendly hosts for the nice, clean signals desired. The culprits that compromise signal ...
The New York Times

Britain Gets Its First New Rail Clock Design in a Half Century

In a nod to history, the digital clock’s seconds indicator incorporates the British railway system’s renowned double arrow logo. By Susanne Fowler Reporting from London Train stations are known for ...
Science Daily

This tiny quantum clock packs a billion-fold energy mystery

Scientists built a tiny clock from single-electron jumps to probe the true energy cost of quantum timekeeping. They discovered that reading the clock’s output requires vastly more energy than the ...