Chinese scientists have developed a nuclear clock that is capable of operating stably by using transitions in the atomic ...

Ultraprecise clocks that use transitions in atomic nuclei to keep time show promise as a next-generation time standard and for probing fundamental physics.

Nuclear clock technology made history as two independent teams -- Vienna's TU Wien and Beijing's Tsinghua University -- simultaneously built the world's first working thorium-229 nuclear clocks. The ...

Two teams of scientists have built the first working "nuclear clocks", which could become the world's most accurate ...

Physicists have built the first stand-alone optical nuclear clock by locking a continuous-wave laser to the thorium-229 ...

For decades, researchers around the world have been working toward this goal—and now major advances are following in rapid ...

The world’s network of atomic clocks is already mind-bogglingly accurate. They also underpin a slew of modern necessities, ...

BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have developed a nuclear clock and achieved stable operation, shifting ultra-precise time measurement from electron transitions inside atoms to ...

A groundbreaking breakthrough in precision timekeeping has been achieved by a leading Chinese scientific research team, which ...

Two research groups have built nuclear clocks for the first time, creating ultra-precise devices that measure time through ...

Nearly eight decades after the invention of the atomic clock, scientists in Vienna and Beijing have independently developed ...

(Patcharin Saenlakon/iStockphoto/Getty Images) The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for ...