Science
First Ticking ‘Nuclear Clocks’ Developed
Scientists have developed the first nuclear clocks, which use fluctuations in an atom’s nucleus to keep time instead of its electrons.
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Scientific American
These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons, which atomic clocks currently use to define the length of a second
2026-06-23 13:15 UTC