Imagine walking into a room where several different grandfather clocks hang on the walls, each ticking at a different pace.

In a grandfather clock, the pendulum swings back and forth. In a wristwatch, an electric current ensures that a tuning-fork-shaped piece of quartz oscillates. And when it comes to atomic clocks ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

(Courtesy: Chuankun Zhang/JILA) Could a new type of clock potentially be more accurate than today’s best optical atomic clocks? Such a device is now nearing reality, thanks to new work by researchers ...

The technology, enabled by thorium atoms, could keep time more accurately than atomic clocks and enable new discoveries ... Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.

Scientists have big plans for Nitrogen Atom-Based Endohedral Fullerene due to its potential to revolutionise technology with tiny atomic clocks.

A business school is using AI doomerism, money from Saudi Arabia, and a dusty Cold War metaphor to get people hyped about ...