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Esther Heid, Florian Glöcklhofer and Marco De Paoli
© Ulrich Zinell | Imperial College London | privat

Huge success with this year's ERC Starting Grants: Esther Heid, Florian Glöcklhofer and Marco De Paoli receive highly endowed funding.

Nuclear clock
© Oliver Diekmann, TU Wien

Atomic clocks have been used for decades – but now, even greater precision has become possible: TU Wien (Vienna) and JILA/NIST are presenting the world's first nuclear clock.

Rydberg-Atom

Researchers from TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) and Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) have created an extremely exotic state of matter. Its atoms have a diameter a hundred times…