Raising the energy state of an atom’s nucleus using a laser, or exciting it, would enable development of the most accurate atomic clocks ever to exist. This has been hard to do because electrons, ...

A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has made a major breakthrough in optical nuclear clocks, achieving laser-based excitation of Thoria-229 in a non-transparent host material.

An in-depth understanding of how nuclear materials behave and radiochemical processes function is required for the advancement of nuclear energy, security, and medical technologies. Advanced ...

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens at the extremes of neutron and proton numbers, in search of where the ...

Physicists have started the countdown on developing a new generation of timepieces capable of shattering records by providing accuracy of up to one second in 300 billion years, or about 22 times the ...

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In a stunning new discovery, researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have uncovered a mysterious “bump” in the ...

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...

Researchers at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, precisely measured atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear ...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy, a tool in elucidating the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules, offers insights into their atomic-level architectures. Through nuclei and ...

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