The world’s first nuclear watch looms on the horizon

For The ultimate timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. While the best quartz clocks lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock may not lose a thousandth of one in a decade. Such devices support everything GPS And the Internet for stock market trading. This may seem good enough for most people. But in a paper recently published in natureResearchers report that they are ready to build its successor: the nuclear clock. Eckhard Beck, one of the pioneers in this field, says that such a clock could be 1,000 times better than today’s standard atomic clocks.