From the latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen…

mushroom picking who to bomb next

#senryu #war #haiga #micropoetry #haiku #monoku #art #nuclearclock #mushroom

Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte...

In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and NIST Fellow and @colorado.edu physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts.
jila.colorado.edu/news-events/...

Breakthrough: Scientists Create World's First #NuclearClock Prototype

A Nuclear Clock So Precise It Could Redefine Time Itself #Science #Physics #NuclearPhysics #NuclearClock #PrecisionTimekeeping #TimeRedefinition

Une horloge nucléaire au thorium‑229 vise à déceler les moindres oscillations causées par la matière noire.
www.enviro2b.com/2025/07/20/c...
#Space #Science #DarkMatter #NuclearClock #Thorium229 #QuantumSensor #FundamentalPhysics

You've heard of atomic clocks. Well, that's so 20th century. More precision awaits us with nuclear clocks. And this advance finds a place to hang the clock…inside a calcium fluoride crystal.

japanresearchreport.substack.com/p/atomic-clo...

#NuclearClock #AtomicClock #Thorium229 #Metrology

After a 20-year chase, physicists have built the first , using thorium’s nucleus for unprecedented precision. This portable, stable timekeeper could revoluti #NuclearClock #Physics #Timekeepin

https://freegardner.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/first-nuclear-clock-built-after-20-year-chase/

⏰ Nuclear clock breakthrough! Japanese-led team reveals how electrons reset thorium-229 isomers. Crucial for next-gen ultra-precise clocks used in GPS & dark matter research!
kantenna.com/topic/t...
#Japan #Physics #NuclearClock #Science

STIRSAP technique accelerates isomeric population transfer in 229Th nuclei from hundreds of milliseconds to microseconds with 79.38% efficiency, showing improved robustness against detuning uncertainties compared to conventional STIRAP methods.

#NuclearClock #QuantumControl #229Th

This is awesome in so many ways I cannot fit it in a toot.

https://nebula.tv/videos/upandatom-it-took-20-years-but-we-finally-found-it

#physics #nuclearclock

One step closer to developing an ultra-precise #nuclearclock - http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/20260_ENG_HTML.php #nucleartransition #thorium

Probing a #NuclearClock transition http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/9428_ENG_HTML.php @LMU_Muenchen @FAIR_GSI_de #Thorium

Photo/©: Lars von der Wense, LMU München

Improved prospects for developing a #NuclearClock: Radiative decay of the nuclear isomer of #thorium229 observed for the first time / Paving the way for optical control of this atomic nucleus https://press.uni-mainz.de/improved-prospects-for-developing-a-nuclear-clock/ #AtomicClock...