By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that ...

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

Keeping time is easy, keeping precise time is hard, but a new type of clock based on atomic nuclei has pushed time-keeping ...

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

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

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

But physicists have long dreamt of even better clocks that run on atomic nuclei, which are less sensitive to environmental disturbances. According to new research, that dream might soon become reality ...

A clock built from thorium-229 has crossed an important line, from a long-discussed concept to a working device. The shift ...

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

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

Atomic clocks are a class of clocks that leverage resonance frequencies of atoms to keep time with high precision. While these clocks have become increasingly advanced and accurate over the years, ...

A new type of miniature atomic clock could provide better timing over the span of weeks and months compared with current systems. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...