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Researchers at DESY and European XFEL developed a new generation of atomic clocks using scandium, enabling unprecedented precision. The team detected an extremely narrow resonance line in the element's nucleus, which enables accuracy of one second in 300 billion years.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Milestone for novel atomic clock Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY · Sep 27, 2023 · first to report
- Texas A&M physicists play key role in milestone moment toward development of nuclear clock Texas A&M University · Nov 3, 2023
- Scientists move closer to long-theorized ultraprecise nuclear clock DOE/Argonne National Laboratory · Nov 16, 2023