{
  "id": 12651833,
  "title": "China’s thorium-229 nuclear clock beats Vienna’s on stability, studies show",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/chinas-thorium-229-nuclear-clock-beats-viennas-on-stability-studies",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-07T15:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3370006/chinas-thorium-229-nuclear-clock-beats-viennas-stability-studies-show"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Initial results from the world’s first two working nuclear clocks indicate that China’s timepiece is about six times as stable as the one in Vienna, according to papers published this week by the journal Nature. The clocks were developed independently but both the Chinese team, led by Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the researchers at Vienna’s TU Wien used thorium-229 nuclei embedded in…",
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        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "China’s thorium-229 nuclear clock beats Vienna’s on stability, studies show",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/chinas-thorium-229-nuclear-clock-beats-viennas-on-stability-studies-12653532",
        "published": "2026-10-07T15:00:07.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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