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An old jeweler’s trick could change nuclear timekeeping

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...
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This atomic clock keeps time for 15 billion years

The strontium atomic clock measures time so precisely it would not lose a second for 15 billion years, redefining how time ...
The Republican HeraldOpinion

Editorial: Tick, tick goes the Doomsday Clock

This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of ...
Texarkana GazetteOpinion

EDITORIAL | Ticking ...: Nuclear scientists to reset Doomsday Clock this month

Since 1947 -- after the end of World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War -- the Science and Security Board of the ...
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A Chip that Keeps Time (Almost) Like an Atomic Clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...
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The most precise clock ever built ticks closer to reality

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...
Electronic Specifier

Mini atomic clock to revolutionise global timing

The NPL has developed a miniaturised Atomic Fountain Clock that promises to make accurate timekeeping technology smaller.