A recent breakthrough has paved the way for timekeeping even more precise than the measurements performed by atomic clocks.

In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant came to embody Americans’ fears about atomic energy, after one of its two ...

In atomic clocks, the electrons around an atom ... corresponds to a “tick” measuring a small fraction of a second. Nuclear clocks would follow the same principles, but use the transitions ...

Atomic Minerals Corporation (TSXV: ATOM) (“ATOMIC MINERALS” or the “Company”) further to its news release on July 31, 2024 wherein the Company announced its Private Placement Offering and closing of a ...

Reckoned by atomic seconds, however, Earth’s full journey around the sun took 31,622,401.14. As a result, two additional ...

Prof. Sebastian Loth and his team have captured atomic-level electron motion in solids with unprecedented spatial and ...

Such a device would greatly surpass the capabilities of atomic clocks, which define the span of a second through controlled energy jumps in atoms’ electrons and are currently the pinnacle of ...

Harnessing quantum principles, atomic clocks achieve extraordinary timekeeping accuracy, transforming navigation, ...

The low-energy excited state of thorium-229 (229Th) isotope nucleus has recently gained much attention owing to it being an ...

A mortgage for a vacation home is similar to that of your primary residence, except for a few critical differences: Second home mortgage rates tend to be higher, and it may be harder to qualify ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...