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The world's first nuclear clock

For many years, scientists all around the world have been working towards this goal, now suddenly things are happening very fast: it was only in April that a team led by Prof Thorsten Schumm (TU Wien, ...
New Scientist

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...
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The world's first nuclear clock can detect changes in nature’s fundamental constants

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...
Gizmodo

Scientists Reveal the World’s First Nuclear Clock

The timekeeping device is made with atomic nuclei of thorium, although it is not yet more precise than standard atomic clocks. Reading time 2 minutes Meet the “nuclear” clock: a device that marks the ...
The Economist

The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon

FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock might not lose a thousandth of one in a decade.