Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics

Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

The world's first nuclear clock just ticked on — and it could help detect a fifth fundamental force of physics

By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that ...

Physicists Just Built the First-Ever Nuclear Clock

But physicists have long dreamt of even better clocks that run on atomic nuclei, which are less sensitive to environmental disturbances. According to new research, that dream might soon become reality ...

The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here

Nuclear clocks should be more robust and portable than the best available clocks today because nuclei are hard to perturb and ...
Science News

Clocks made from an atomic nucleus just ticked on for the first time

First dreamed up decades ago, the world's first nuclear clocks are set to improve quickly, becoming more precise and aiding the hunt for dark matter.
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, ...

Physicists use thorium-229 to power the world's first working nuclear clock

A clock built from thorium-229 has crossed an important line, from a long-discussed concept to a working device. The shift ...
Gizmodo

Scientists Reveal the World’s First Nuclear Clock

The timekeeping device is made with atomic nuclei of thorium, although it is not yet more precise than standard atomic clocks. Reading time 2 minutes Meet the “nuclear” clock: a device that marks the ...