The first stand-alone nuclear clock is ticking in Vienna

For decades, researchers around the world have been working toward this goal—and now major advances are following in rapid ...
Nature

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Ultraprecise clocks that use transitions in atomic nuclei to keep time show promise as a next-generation time standard and for probing fundamental physics.

Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks

By Will Dunham Oct 7 (Reuters) - Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first ...
Tech Times on MSN

Rival teams build first nuclear clocks, then immediately search for dark matter

Nuclear clock technology made history as two independent teams -- Vienna's TU Wien and Beijing's Tsinghua University -- simultaneously built the world's first working thorium-229 nuclear clocks. The ...
EL PAÍS English

The age of nuclear clocks is here: A new tool for probing the laws of physics

Chinese and European scientists have unveiled prototypes that usher in a new era of timekeeping, using thorium-229 as their ...

Scientists in Austria and China create the world’s first nuclear clocks. Here’s why it matters

The new nuclear clocks measure time by using lasers to make subatomic particles. View on euronews ...
American Institute of Physics

DOE Science Committee Draws Concerns Over Limited Expertise

DOE’s smaller scientific advisory committee may not be equipped to plan the future of the physical sciences, scientists say.

Scientists demonstrate sustained operation of the world's first self-regulating nuclear clock

A thorium-229 nuclear clock in Vienna ran for more than 24 hours without intervention, automatically correcting its laser ...
Physics World

Nuclear clocks finally see the light

Two independent teams have realized the first clocks based on transitions within atomic nuclei. The new nuclear clocks represent the culmination of more than 20 years of research and could become ...

"Creating things that will be useful for the future": Why a developer from a different field is crossing boundaries to take on nuclear fusion

Source: Based on the Wantedly "Helical Fusion Inc." story (published September 21, 2023), re-edited to reflect the current ...

Wisconsin's Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for neutrinos

A Belgian-American physics professor at the University of Wisconsin won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his work in ...

Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics for neutrino research

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United ...