{"id":158482,"date":"2026-10-07T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158482"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:00:07","slug":"chinas-thorium-229-nuclear-clock-beats-viennas-on-stability-studies-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158482","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s thorium-229 nuclear clock beats Vienna\u2019s on stability, studies show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostInitial results from the world\u2019s first two working nuclear clocks indicate that China\u2019s timepiece is about six times as stable as the one in Vienna, according to papers published this week by the journal Nature.<br \/>\nThe clocks were developed independently but both the Chinese team, led by Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the researchers at Vienna\u2019s TU Wien used thorium-229 nuclei embedded in crystals to keep time by the steady rhythm of the atom\u2019s core, rather than the electrons whirling around&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3370006\/chinas-thorium-229-nuclear-clock-beats-viennas-stability-studies-show?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostInitial results from the world\u2019s first two working nuclear clocks indicate that China\u2019s timepiece is about six times as stable as the one in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}