Dr Jacinda Ginges, from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics, said the unusual atom – made up of an ordinary caesium atom and an elementary particle called a muon – may prove essential in better ...

Among the elements, cesium, located in the lower left corner of the periodic table, and fluorine, in the upper right corner, are among the largest electropositive and smallest electronegative elements ...

A highly sensitive quantum sensor from Jena has traveled nearly 9,000 kilometers: by truck to Hamburg, by ship across the Atlantic, and finally overland to Vassouras, Brazil. In a pioneering effort, ...

With a new and improved atomic clock, the standard of time in America is about to change -- a teeny, tiny bit. For the first time in 15 years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or ...

Donald B. Sullivan, a physicist and chief of the time and frequency division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, explains. When the cesium second was defined in 1967, it was based ...

An unusual form of caesium atom is helping a research team unmask unknown particles that make up the Universe. An unusual form of caesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team ...

An unusual form of caesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the Universe. Dr Jacinda Ginges, from UQ’s School of Mathematics and ...

(Nanowerk News) An unusual form of caesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the Universe. Dr Jacinda Ginges, from UQ’s School of ...