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 ...

Our caesium fountains are among only 12 worldwide. Meet the timekeepers who watch over them at the IST Metrology Division in New Delhi.

From Ancient Greece to modern India’s proud atomic clocks, see what’s ticking – and how that’s about to change.

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art ...

Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China released LTE440, short for Lunar Time Ephemeris, in a recently ...

The British Journal of Photography has announced the winners of Portrait of Britain Vol. 8. The contest, which began in 2016, ...

Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to ...

China has quietly taken a decisive step in the new space race by building what it calls the first software system capable of ...

After the past year or so, the famed Doomsday Clock at the University of Chicago might be running a little fast.

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