Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrei Marek, a woodworker from Romania, used his life savings to buy a plane ticket to America after he lost his job. He waited ...

Have you ever looked at a clock and thought, “This could be so much more than just a way to tell time”? Imagine a timepiece that doubles as a modern art installation, a glowing hexagonal masterpiece ...

Scientists have created a clock so precise it could redefine the second. The strontium optical lattice clock is one of the most accurate timepieces ever made, capable of measuring seconds to 19 ...

Nuclear effect The deformed shape of the ytterbium-173 nucleus (right) makes it possible to excite the clock transition with a relatively low-power laser. The same transition is forbidden (left) if ...

A huge breakthrough decades in the making was made just a few months ago, and already scientists are realizing its potential: A measurement of the gap between the quantum energy states of a thorium ...

Nuclear clocks would measure time based on changes inside an atom's nucleus, which would make them less sensitive to external disturbances and potentially more accurate than atomic clocks. These ...

(TNS) — In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not ...

A powerful laser shines into a jet of gas, creating a bright plasma and generating ultraviolet light. The light leaves a visible white line as it interacts with leftover gas in the vacuum chamber.