JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

atomic clocks are now reaching unprecedented precision, bringing these elusive effects within measurable range. "Since these clocks simultaneously interrogate many atoms, they provide a unique ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece ... according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which established the clock in 1947. Midnight represents the ...

In 2001, Japanese physicist Hidetoshi Katori proposed a new type of atomic clock that only loses a second every 30 billion years, a period longer than the current age of the universe. The ...

A solid-state nuclear clock has a great potential to become a robust and portable timing device that is highly precise.

A new study investigated the mortality and mental health correlates of the iconic Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock.