A clock built from thorium-229 has crossed an important line, from a long-discussed concept to a working device. The shift ...

Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) usually capture what happens when ...

(koto_feja/Getty Images) A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time.

But physicists have long dreamt of even better clocks that run on atomic nuclei, which are less sensitive to environmental ...

First dreamed up decades ago, the world's first nuclear clocks are set to improve quickly, becoming more precise and aiding ...

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Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, ...

He participated in the historic agreement that limited Iran's nuclear program a decade ago. Today, he works for Crisis Group. In 2009, when Ali Vaez arrived in Washington and the ayatollahs' atomic ...

In our world of AI-dominated algorithms, some nuclear physicists prefer to do science the old-fashioned way. And this newly developed physics-based, AI-free algorithm may be the breakthrough needed ...

AMES, Iowa – John Lajoie, surrounded in his office by Star Trek posters and a few space hero action figures, recently made the case for nuclear physics research and the multi-million-dollar ...

Work on nuclear physics in the early twentieth century moved across borders, institutes and private letters. Lise Meitner was part of that movement for decades, first in Vienna, then in Berlin, later ...

An artist’s impression of a quantum electrodynamics simulation using 100 qubits of an IBM quantum computer. The spheres and lines denote the qubits and connectivity of the IBM quantum processor; gold ...