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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

For decades, nuclear clocks have existed as one of physics’ most tempting promises. A ...

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...

Without precise time, the modern world collapses - from GPS to the electricity grid. And Switzerland is one of the clock ...