Atomic clocks have been around for nearly 80 years, but their successors—nuclear clocks—are ready to take the stage. Two independent studies, both uploaded as preprints, report reliable timekeeping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (koto_feja/Getty Images) A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time. Using ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

For decades, scientists have tried to build a device even more precise than an atomic clock, which keeps time using electrons, the negatively charged particles that whiz around in an atom. Now, two ...

Perfect timekeeping is more complicated than you think. Most clocks slow down over time (not that many people notice), and tiny imperfections in the manufacturing process ensure that no two timepieces ...

Back in 2024, a joint collaboration of researchers from TU Wien in Austria and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US announced the development of the first optical nuclear clock ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

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NATURE BRIEFING 22 June 2026 Daily briefing: First-ever ‘nuclear’ clocks put atomic clocks in the shade Two research teams have created a new, long-awaited type of timekeeper. Plus, how backlash has ...