National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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Science Physics

The Best Atomic Clock Won't Lose a Second in 30 Billion Years

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Earth & Climate Natural Disasters

A distant quake flattened Mexico City

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Technology Computing & AI

Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program — for a machine that was never built

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Science Physics

The coldest stuff in the universe was made on Earth

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Technology Engineering

GPS Would Fail Without Einstein's Relativity

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Earth & Climate Natural Disasters

The Kobe earthquake strikes Japan

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Society & Economy Politics & Law

One 1918 law gave America its time zones and daylight saving

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Nature & Animals Evolution

We date dinosaur fossils using radioactive clocks in the rock

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Science Chemistry

Gallium is a metal that melts in the warmth of your hand

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Science Physics

Water can boil and freeze at the same time

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