The new atomic clock from physicists in Singapore has crushed all previous records. Physicists in Singapore have built an ...

Two independent teams have locked lasers to the nucleus of thorium-229 and kept time with it, one clock running untouched for ...

The world’s network of atomic clocks is already mind-bogglingly accurate. They also underpin a slew of modern necessities, ...

Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise ...

Researchers in Austria have built the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, using thorium nuclei to keep its laser ...

The world's first nuclear clocks have ticked. A team of physicists has demonstrated a working timekeeping device regulated not by orbiting electrons — as in conventional atomic clocks — but by ...

Austrian collaboration has demonstrated the first continuously operating optical nuclear clock based on thorium-229, running ...

By measuring the squishing and unsquishing of thorium-229 nuclei, two teams created a new type of clock that could someday ...

For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ytterbium to create a new type of atomic clock that is both highly precise and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests trapped-ion atomic clocks could detect quantum superpositions of time, opening a path toward uniting quantum ...

For the first time, scientists used an atomic nucleus as a clock. The world’s most precise timepieces are made using atoms, specifically their electrons. But clocks based on atomic nuclei — protons ...