Using thorium films just 100 nm thick, researchers were able to detect photon emissions and verify working on the nuclear ...

Atomic, Molecular and Optical ... so precise that a new generation of atomic clocks can be envisioned, whose accuracy approaches 1 second in the lifetime of the universe. This is the age of ...

Reported recently in a new study published in Nature, a team of researchers, led by JILA and NIST Fellow and University of ...

Dr. Svenja Knappe holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship in the Department Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her research interests include MEMS atomic clocks, ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in precision timekeeping by developing a safer and more affordable way to build ...

The atomic clock, which for ever ripped time from ... a collaboration between Nist and the University of Colorado Boulder, once known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and founded ...

Unlike optical atomic clocks—which rely on electronic transitions—nuclear clocks utilize the ... Reported recently in a new study published in Nature, a team of researchers, led by JILA and NIST ...