Vienna team builds thorium nuclear clock running over 24 hours
Researchers in Vienna have developed the first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, potentially surpassing atomic clocks in precision by using thorium nuclei for timekeeping.
A team in Vienna has built a new kind of clock that uses thorium nuclei instead of electrons, making it much less affected by outside conditions. This nuclear clock can run solo for more than 24 hours without intervention and could end up being even ... [437 chars]
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