interesting engineering

JILA’s groundbreaking work on nuclear clocks has been highlighted in Interesting Engineering, showcasing the team’s latest advancements in ultra-precise timekeeping. Their recent study, published as an Editor's Choice paper in Physical Review Letters, explores how temperature variations affect the thorium-229 nuclear transition—an essential step toward developing a next-generation nuclear clock that could surpass the accuracy of current atomic clocks.

JILA and NIST Fellow and CU Boulder Physics Professor Jun Ye and his team have been featured in a recent Interesting Engineering article for their work on nuclear clocks using thorium thin films.