Atomic clocks record time using microwaves to measure the frequency of quantum vibrations of electrons. They are the basis upon which a second is defined. But there’s a new kid on the block, the ...

A revolutionary timekeeping breakthrough could be on the horizon as scientists explore the thorium-229 nuclear optical clock, an innovation that may surpass today’s atomic clocks. By manipulating ...

NASA's SpaceX 32nd commercial resupply services mission, scheduled to lift off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in ...

QuantX Labs will launch a key sub-system of its next-generation optical atomic clock on a SpaceX mission in December.

The semiquincentennial comes as President Trump, the scholarly community and others mark a national divide over whether to ...

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics ...

The study is published in the journal Nature Physics. After the advent of transistors, lasers and atomic clocks, the entanglement of quantum objects—as varied as photons, electrons and ...

Imagine an 80,000-pound truck driving down a foggy highway at night. Suddenly, a deer runs onto the road, and the truck smoothly maneuvers, narrowly avoiding an accident. However, this scenario does ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. I was faced with a modern iteration of Karna’s ...

It makes Stephen Hawking’s PHD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge look like a travel and ... but ...