JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...

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Chinese companies are imposing various measures to stamp out toxic workplace culture and overcompetition, which officials ...

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A solid-state nuclear clock has a great potential to become a robust and portable timing device that is highly precise.

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...

A massive explosion, believed to have been triggered by a scrap dealer handling an old bomb, has killed at least 16 people in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia, civil defence officials said on Sunday ...

Risk to planet from 2024 YR4, a football pitch-sized space rock, has been ‘significantly’ downgraded … but the Moon may still suffer a hit ...