A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Diplomacy worked for decades, mainly because of an understanding that avoiding nuclear war was essential to humanity’s future ...

Chennai, Jan 8 (UNI) union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Secretary S. Krishnan on Thursday launched ‘Param Shakti’, an indigenously developed and manufactured 3.1 Petaflop ...

Government weighs changes to power purchase rules and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) norms to mainstream nuclear as clean energy.

India and Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations and prisoners under bilateral pacts even as relations remain ...

Nevertheless, I happily baked a 10-shaped cake for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, a WiiU classic. This was basically a ...

Chennai, Jan 1 (UNI) Sreekumar G Pillai, an Outstanding Scientist and Deputy Chief Executive, Nuclear Recycle Board, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, has been appointed as the new Director of ...

Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

Researchers are looking for new ways to improve timekeeping because even small gains in stability can help physicists discover subtle physical effects. The thorium-229 nuclear clock is a newer venture ...