Archive for July 5th, 2015

Ground-based atomic clocks for monitoring volcanoes

An international team led by scientists from the University of Zurich finds that high-precision atomic clocks can be used to monitoring volcanoes and potentially improve predictions of future eruptions. In addition, a ground-based network of atomic clocks could monitor the reaction of Earth’s crust to solid Earth tides. Atomic clocks measure time with unbelievable accuracy. […]