Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 10, 2026 edition. This is an attributed summary; linked-source claims have not been independently verified.
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Teams report the first nuclear clocks
Claim
The newsletter reports that teams in Vienna and Beijing built nuclear clocks using thorium-229 transitions, with a reported drift of one second over several million years.
Reported metric: a second every few million years
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
Sources
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- Welcome to October 10, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- Source linked by the October 10 issue (www.nytimes.com)
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