Aalto University physicists in Finland have set a new benchmark in quantum computing by achieving a record-breaking ...

Tuesday, July 22, is expected to be the second of three days in 2025 where more than a millisecond could be shaved off the ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

Neutron stars, those ultra-dense stellar corpses, continue to surprise scientists. An international team used NASA's IXPE ...

All the datacentres that run the internet, communications and financial transactions, they are based on precise timing. We also need a precise knowledge of time for navigation, and particularly for ...

Today, the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) announced that it has received U.S. Department of Defense funding to test a city-scale AI system that will enable multiple companies to ...

The nearest millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 has a radius of 11.4 kilometers and a mass 1.4 times that of the sun. These are the results of precision measurements made by a team of researchers ...

Millisecond pulsars are old neutron stars, with rotational frequencies of several hundred revolutions per second. Previous theoretical studies have explained their origin via mass transfer in binary ...

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Astronomers have tracked down the first gamma-ray pulsar in a globular cluster of stars. It is around 27,000 light years away and thus also holds the distance record in this class of objects. Moreover ...