Raising the energy state of an atom’s nucleus using a laser, or exciting it, would enable development of the most accurate atomic clocks ever to exist. This has been hard to do because electrons, ...

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A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving laser-based excitation of Thoria-229 in a non-transparent host material.

In a stunning new discovery, researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have uncovered a mysterious “bump” in the ...

An in-depth understanding of how nuclear materials behave and radiochemical processes function is required for the advancement of nuclear energy, security, and medical technologies. Advanced ...

Physicists have started the countdown on developing a new generation of timepieces capable of shattering records by providing accuracy of up to one second in 300 billion years, or about 22 times the ...

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...

An artist's rendition of the scandium nuclear clock. Scientists used the X-ray pulses at the European XFEL to excite in the atomic nucleus of scandium — the sort of processes that can generate a clock ...