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Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder ...

Nuclear clocks would measure time based on changes inside an atom's nucleus, which would make them less sensitive to external disturbances and potentially more accurate than atomic clocks.

Physicists have demonstrated all the ingredients of a nuclear clock — a device that keeps time by measuring tiny energy shifts inside an atomic nucleus. Such clocks could lead to vast ...

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.

After several sanity checks to make sure that what they were looking at was real — a signal from a thorium-229 nucleus switching between two states, known as the “nuclear clock” transition — the young ...

Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

However, there are actually a few states in the United States where clocks won’t “fall back” for the biannual event. Tododisca US — which focus on “disability, dependency, elderly ...

Atomic clocks have served as the world’s most precise means of measuring time for over 70 years, but their reign may be finally coming to an end. According to an announcement from the National ...

Researchers have made a big step towards the creation of the long theorized nuclear clock, by getting the most accurate measurement of the frequency of light required to push thorium nuclei into a ...