Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

Atomic clocks leveraged the atom to keep time, but new innovations will use the nucleus itself.

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices use fluctuations in the energy ...

Nuclear clocks should be more robust and portable than the best available clocks today because nuclei are hard to perturb and ...

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, ...

World's first thorium-229 nuclear clock shows potential for ultra-precise timekeeping and fundamental physics tests.

First dreamed up decades ago, the world's first nuclear clocks are set to improve quickly, becoming more precise and aiding ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually ...

But physicists have long dreamt of even better clocks that run on atomic nuclei, which are less sensitive to environmental ...

Atomic clocks are established as the most precise timekeepers created. Atomic clocks work by deploying lasers to measure the vibrations of atoms (electromagnetic signals). By atoms oscillating at a ...

Back in 2024, a joint collaboration of researchers from TU Wien in Austria and the National Institute of Standards and ...

Most clocks, from wristwatches to the systems that run GPS and the internet, work by tracking regular, repeating motions. To build a clock, you need something that ticks in a perfectly repeatable way.