Nuclear clocks are finally ticking
The world’s most precise clocks currently keep time using electrons. A laser excites electrons between two energy…
Scientists demonstrate sustained operation of the world’s first self-regulating nuclear clock
A thorium-229 nuclear clock in Vienna ran for more than 24 hours without intervention, automatically correcting its laser…
Physicists Just Built the First-Ever Nuclear Clock
The best timekeepers today—atomic clocks—work off the quantum vibrations of an atom, specifically its electrons. But physicists have…
1,000x more efficient tabletop laser could power future nuclear clocks
Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new type of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is…