A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way This was accomplished by showing that the element largely ...

Ytterbium was discovered in 1878, but until it recently became useful in atomic clocks, the soft metal rarely made the news. Now ytterbium has a new claim to scientific fame. Measurements with ...

High precision clock comparisons of different atoms will contribute to a redefinition of the unit of time. The comparison of optical lattice clocks using ytterbium and strontium atoms has attained a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Scientists claim to have developed the world's most precise clock made from the element ytterbium, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion - ten times better than any other ...

You’ve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But you’ve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and ...

The weak interaction has the shortest range of the fundamental forces and does some of the most peculiar things, like changing the flavor of quarks, governing the interactions of neutrinos, and ...