Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics

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

The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here — what can they do?

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

The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here

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

Physicists use thorium-229 to power the world's first working nuclear clock

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

World’s first working nuclear clocks built with thorium nucleus after decades of effort

For decades, nuclear clocks have existed as one of physics’ most tempting promises. A ...
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Why does NASA need to use atomic clocks in space?

Humanity has used clocks since we became aware of the concept of time. And as technology has improved, so have our time-keeping methods. Today, many people rely on digital clocks to track the hours ...
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Success! Physicists Build The World's First Clocks Powered by Atomic Nuclei

(koto_feja/Getty Images) A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time.