Chinese and European scientists have unveiled prototypes that usher in a new era of timekeeping, using thorium-229 as their ...
Two independent teams have built operating nuclear clocks—devices that might one day rival the best atomic clocks and offer ...
Pt. 1. From the discovery of the neutron to nuclear fission. The state of nuclear physics in 193l -- Discovery of the neutron -- Discovery of the positron and artificial radioactivity -- Radioactivity ...
Researchers have designed and demonstrated an ultraviolet laser that removes a major bottleneck in the development of a nuclear clock. Whereas ordinary atomic clocks keep time using transitions of ...