It’s been another banner year for quantum science and technology, with academic research groups and...

IntroductionFor most of humankind’s existence, Earth was the only known ocean-draped world, seemingly unlike any other cosmic isle. But in 1979, NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft...

Physicists at the University of Colorado, Boulder, US have determined the shape of the electron’s charge distribution to unprecedented precision. Led...

Building a clock based on a nuclear transition has long been a goal of metrologists. As well as offering the potential...

The first direct measurement has been made of a thorium-229 nuclear transition that could potentially...

Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered molten-salt reactor....