Akio Kawasaki is at the National Metrology Institute of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8563, Japan. Clocks consist of three components: ...
A "nuclear clock" that uses changes in the energy of the atomic nucleus itself as a time standard has been implemented for the first time in a working form. Chinese and European research teams ...
Two separate research groups — one at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology in Austria, one at Tsinghua University in Beijing — have built the world's first working nuclear clocks, ...
For decades, researchers around the world have been working toward this goal—and now major advances are following in rapid succession. Vienna is now home to the world's first nuclear clock that ...
By measuring the squishing and unsquishing of thorium-229 nuclei, two teams created a new type of clock that could someday beat the precision of atomic clocks.