For decades, scientists have tried to build a device even more precise than an atomic clock, which keeps time using electrons ...

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 ...

Several thousand people were in attendance at the Mountain America Center arena in Idaho Falls on Thursday afternoon to ...

By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that could lead to even more precise clocks and new ways to search for dark ...

The ability to study extreme processes such as TGFs originating in lightning allows us to better understand the high-energy ...

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions ...

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.

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks ...

Scientists at the INL have discovered a rare quantum property in a plutonium compound paving the way for new material and ...

The site is part of e-MERLIN, a globally significant group of seven radio telescopes across the UK.