According to Live Science, physicists have built the world's first working nuclear clock, using a rare thorium nucleus as its timekeeping mechanism. Nuclear clocks promise to be far more precise than existing atomic clocks, potentially unlocking new ways to search for dark matter and evidence of a fifth fundamental force of physics—pushing our understanding of the universe to unprecedented scales of precision.

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