Changing times: JILA researchers measured time dilation within this tiny cloud of strontium atoms. (Courtesy: R Jacobson/NIST) Two independent teams of researchers in the US have used differential ...

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Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom.