The World's First Nuclear Clock Is Finally Ticking

The World's First Nuclear Clock Is Finally Ticking - Scientific American

The world's first nuclear clock, created in Boulder, Colo., by an international team of scientists, was detailed in a paper published in Nature.

Precision Meets Power in the World's First Thorium Nuclear Clock

The thorium atomic nuclei can now be used as a time keeping device, making the clock even more precise – it is the world's first nuclear clock.

World's First Ultra-Precise Nuclear Clock Is Within Reach After Major ...

The current gold standard for ultra-precise timekeeping is the cesium atomic clock, where the tiny and fixed energy transitions of the atom's ...

Why Scientists Are So Excited About the World's First Nuclear Clock

This is beyond my imagination. Exciting the nucleus of an atom with precision. I had read about this clock earlier in the week. But today was ...

Breakthrough: Scientists Create World's First Nuclear Clock Prototype

An atomic clock is one that relies on the very precise 'ticking' of atoms as they switch between energy states when stimulated by a laser, as ...

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change

The discovery of a laser-controllable transition in the atomic nucleus of thorium-229 marks the dawn of the “nuclear clock.” Nash Weerasekera ...

World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks

In both cases, the “ticking” comes from particles switching back and forth between two quantum states, when hit by a laser of a specific ...

World's first nuclear clock unveiled: Mind-boggling 99.9999999 ...

World's first nuclear clock unveiled: Mind-boggling 99.9999999% accuracy challenges physics ... VIENNA, Austria — From sundials to atomic clocks, ...

The world's first nuclear clock is on the horizon - The Economist

Ekkehard Peik, one of the field's pioneers, says such a clock could be a factor of 1,000 times better than today's standard atomic clocks. In ...

Nuclear Clock Breakthrough Could Expose Dark Matter and Speed ...

As a final step, Ye's team compared the ticking of their prototype nuclear clock with the ticking of the world's most accurate atomic clocks ...

'Nuclear clock' breakthrough paves the way for super-precise ...

Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei. ... Physicists have demonstrated all the ingredients ...

World's first nuclear clock on the anvil; its accuracy will blow your mind

World's first nuclear clock on the anvil; its accuracy will blow your mind ... Scientists have created the first prototype of a nuclear clock, ...

A Brief History of Atomic Time | NIST

The atomic clock was a dream long before it was a reality. The dream started in the 1870s, when famed British scientists James Clerk Maxwell and William ...

Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

It is still 90 seconds to midnight ... This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists leaves the hands of the Doomsday Clock ...

The Doomsday Clock, explained - Facebook

This is the Doomsday clock. It was designed back in 1947 by artist Martyl Langsdorf. And the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the clock to ...

Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the ...

The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking - The New York Times

23 from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that it had decided not to change the setting of the Doomsday Clock, a metaphorical timepiece ...

How the most precise clock ever could change our view of the cosmos

Since the 1950s, researchers have been constructing atomic clocks, the very best of which are now so accurate they only lose a second in around ...

Video: A history of the Doomsday Clock in 4 minutes

Ultimately, she settled on a clock ticking toward midnight, intended as a metaphor for humanity's proximity to nuclear apocalypse. It would ...

The atomic scientists' Doomsday Clock is now 75—and threats to ...

When the clock was first depicted on the June 1947 issue—set at seven minutes to midnight—the editors were concerned solely with the likelihood ...