For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

An international team of researchers has systematically measured the β-decay half-lives of 40 nuclei near calcium-54, ...

The very first element on the Periodic Table may be the key to solving mysteries hiding inside the atom’s nucleus. Nuclear ...