In 2024, TU Wien presented the world's first nuclear clock. Now it has been demonstrated that the technology can also be used ...

A team of researchers in Austria has recently demonstrated that the world’s first nuclear clock could help answer whether the ...

MIT physicists improved the stability of optical atomic clocks by reducing “quantum noise” — a fundamental measurement ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

In fusion, hydrogen isotopes are heated to extremely high temperatures until they form plasma – superheated, electrically ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.

An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium-3 with unprecedented precision. The results are an important stress test ...

MIT researchers double the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise with an innovative laser technique.

Atomic and molecular physics is a discipline at the heart of understanding matter at its most fundamental level. Over the past century, pioneering experiments and theoretical breakthroughs have ...