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UK researchers unveil ultra-precise atomic clock that is small enough to carry by hand
Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a tiny atomic fountain ...
For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...
On Jan. 27, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board will reveal the 2026 Doomsday Clock time during a live, in-person news ...
A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...
Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock.
Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...
The NPL has developed a miniaturised Atomic Fountain Clock that promises to make accurate timekeeping technology smaller.
Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of ...
Researchers from Los Angeles, Munich, and Mainz open new avenues for nucleus-based quantum technologies A research team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ludwig Maximilian ...
A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...
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