How ultraprecise ‘nuclear clocks’ could transform timekeeping

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the ...
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Sugar cube-sized atomic clock is the smallest ever to be mass produced

Researchers at Wuhan University (WHU) in China have produced a commercially manufacturable atomic clock less than one-seventh ...

A New Kind of Atomic Clock Could Redefine the Second

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.
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The world's first nuclear clock can detect changes in nature’s fundamental constants

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The thorium crystal. The core element of the experiment: a crystal containing thorium atoms. (CREDIT: TU Wien) Scientists have ...
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World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks

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, speeding up ...

Explainer: What is an atomic clock and why it is crucial for navigation satellites

Launched aboard the PSLV–C32, ISRO’s workhorse, and successfully placed into geosynchronous orbit on March 10, 2016, it was the sixth satellite in the IRNSS series ...

Scientists Built Tiny, Portable Atomic Clocks—and Naturally, They’re Headed for Drones

This breakthrough in precision timing is about the size of your fingernail and only loses one second every 30,000 years.
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Major leap for nuclear clock paves way for ultraprecise timekeeping

The world keeps time with the ticks of atomic clocks, but a new type of clock under development—a nuclear clock—could revolutionize how we measure time and probe fundamental physics. An international ...
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Entangled Atomic Clock Experiment Could Finally Provide Hints At A Theory Of Everything

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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Chinese Researchers Build an Atomic Clock That Will Keep Perfect Time for the Next 7+ Billion Years

In a not-so-common breakthrough towards redefining the basic unit of time, a Chinese research team at the University of Science and Technology has unveiled a groundbreaking optical clock that provides ...
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NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Completes Mission

For more than two years, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been pushing the timekeeping frontiers in space. On Sept. 18, 2021, its mission came to a successful end. The instrument is hosted on ...
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NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic Clock

An atomic clock that could pave the way for autonomous deep space travel was successfully activated last week and is ready to begin its year-long tech demo, the mission team confirmed on Friday, Aug.