{"id":244454,"date":"2026-09-24T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-build-worlds-most-accurate-atomic-clock"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:23:33","slug":"scientists-build-worlds-most-accurate-atomic-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-build-worlds-most-accurate-atomic-clock","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build world\u2019s most accurate atomic clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-worlds-most-accurate-atomic-clock2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That\u2019s how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore\u2019s Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) keeps time\u2014and with record-setting accuracy, according to results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11072-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i> on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that what we have now is the most accurate clock in the world,\u201d says team leader Murray Barrett, a CQT principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Physics at the National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers base their claim on measurements showing that their atomic clock, built from the element lutetium, outperforms previous record holders built from different elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That\u2019s how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore\u2019s Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) keeps time\u2014and with record-setting accuracy, according to results published in Nature on Sept. 23. \u201cI am confident that what we have now is the most accurate clock in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}