Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

(koto_feja/Getty Images) A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time. Using atoms of thorium-229, physicists have built functional clocks based ...

Think about the atomic age. The early work in the United States was carried out across a classified but federally accountable archipelago with national laboratories in four sites: Berkeley, Oak Ridge, ...

These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its ...

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics—from magnetism and ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

Silver iodide is an electrical insulator, which rules out most surface-imaging tools that rely on electrons or ions. The team ...

Quantum physics is a prime example. It began as a highly controversial idea – as a fundamental branch of physics that ...

Controlling and trapping molecules, units of a substance consisting of two or more chemically bound atoms, with laser light ...

Keeping time is easy, keeping precise time is hard, but a new type of clock based on atomic nuclei has pushed time-keeping ...

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The approach is known for high accuracy, but scaling it up while preserving that accuracy is technically difficult. Helios ...