By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that ...

Jefferson Lab, a nuclear physics research lab, broke ground on a 30,000 sq ft (2,787 sqm) data center last Friday.

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices use fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus to keep time, rather than those of its ...

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

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

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

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

The nucleus of an atom is now the modern version of sand flowing through an hourglass. Researchers have spent 15 years trying to increase accuracy in timekeeping. The U.S. standard currently relies on ...

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

Numerous phenomenological nuclear models have been proposed to describe specific observables within different regions of the nuclear chart. However, developing a unified model that describes the ...