The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will announce the 2026 Doomsday Clock setting on January 27, with nuclear weapons ...

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

The symbolic clock that tracks humanity’s proximity to self-destruction is edging toward catastrophe at the same time public ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

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 ...

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

A power outage at a key atomic clock facility led to the US official time slowing down by just under five millionths of a second last week, the country’s time watchdog said. A severe windstorm knocked ...

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The reconciliation of general relativity and quantum mechanics is one of the biggest challenges in science, one that continues to elude us. Now, a new study by Anjun Chu and colleagues has examined ...

The field of optical atomic clocks, in combination with ultracold atoms, has transformed precision timekeeping and metrology. By utilising laser-cooled atoms confined in optical lattices, researchers ...