Gizmodo

Scientists Reveal the World’s First Nuclear Clock

Meet the “nuclear” clock: a device that marks the passage of time via minute signals from the nucleus of an atom. A team of researchers led by scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National ...
Microwaves & RF

Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks Serve Low-Power and Remote Duties

In a video demonstration, Microchip Technology’s chip-scale atomic clocks reveal their low phase noise and application ...
Yahoo

Breakthrough: Scientists Create World's First Nuclear Clock Prototype

A huge breakthrough decades in the making was made just a few months ago, and already scientists are realizing its potential: A measurement of the gap between the quantum energy states of a thorium ...
Nature

Atomic Clocks And Frequency Standards

Atomic clocks and frequency standards represent the pinnacle of precision timekeeping technology. By harnessing the natural oscillatory behaviour of atoms, these devices deliver unparalleled accuracy ...
Popular Science

Move over, atomic clocks: Nuclear clocks are on the way

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Interesting Engineering on MSN

UK firm completes world’s first stable deployment of atomic clock on maritime platform

The world’s first stable deployment of a cold-atom-based atomic clock on a moving maritime platform has been completed. The feat was achieved by the Quantum sensing specialist Aquark Technologies ...
NPR

To explore deep space, we'll need better clocks. Here's why

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...

Key steps towards the realization of a high-precision optical clock based on Ni¹²⁺

Optical clocks are highly precise timekeeping devices that measure time by tracking the oscillations of light, as opposed to ...
EurekAlert!

The world's first nuclear clock

For many years, scientists all around the world have been working towards this goal, now suddenly things are happening very fast: it was only in April that a team led by Prof Thorsten Schumm (TU Wien, ...
The Economist

The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon

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.