When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...

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The Electricity Authority has lodged a formal complaint alleging Genesis did not adequately comply with a request to deliver ...

Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.

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The classic Schmitt-trigger-based RC oscillator is "hacked" and analyzed using the simulation software QSPICE.

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A lost nuclear device in the Himalayas, filled with plutonium from a secret 1965 CIA-India mission to spy on China, ...

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The devastating impact of Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 fundamentally transformed how the electric power industry ...