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 ...

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

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 ...

These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time. Using atoms of thorium-229, physicists have built functional clocks based not on the oscillations of ...