The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. What was the first meal eaten on the moon? Hint: Not Moon Pies or astronaut ice cream. (Scroll to the bottom for the answer!) | | “For most of human history, we kept time by Earth’s place in space. The second was a subdivision of an Earth day, and, later, an Earth year. Then came the atomic clock. … Scientists delved into atoms of the element cesium, where a process called the hyperfine transition emits and absorbs microwaves, which scientists could time very precisely with the help of a vibrating quartz crystal. … Now, two different groups have created clocks that can measure subtle physics within the clocks themselves. The research teams published their respective results in two different papers in the journal Nature. 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