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World’s First Nuclear Clock Starts Ticking in Vienna
Scientists in Vienna have just demonstrated the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a device that keeps time by watching the nucleus of thorium rather than its electrons.
The prototype runs for a full day without intervention and has already been used to search for dark matter. The result opens a new window on ultra-precise timekeeping and on physics that ordinary atomic clocks cannot reach.
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