Where do gold, platinum, and uranium come from? This question has fascinated astrophysicists and nuclear physicists for decades. A research team from Technische Universität Darmstadt has now taken an ...

What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact ...

Asymmetric nuclei are ideal for this purpose because their lopsided shape makes small changes easier to detect. Radium, for ...

Nuclear power startup Antares Nuclear said Monday that it has raised $470 million to build small reactors for U.S. military ...

The Orion Nebula has long been one of the most familiar objects in the night sky. It can even be spotted with the naked eye on a clear night. After centuries of observations by nearly every major ...

The new approach relies on a layered form of manganese oxide—a mineral material with the right size layers to allow ions to ...

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Imagine you’re playing “20 Questions” and you start with the classic opener: “Animal, vegetable, or mineral?” Most of the ...

It’s a knockout Illustration of how close pairing was studied. A high-energy electron (purple) scatters from a nucleus by emitting a virtual photon (purple). The photon goes on to knock out a proton ...

Every year the IAEA carries out over 3000 in-field verification activities, applying safeguards at almost 1400 nuclear facilities and other locations around the world. IAEA safeguards allow for ...

Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which could test the limits of the Standard Model and even search for elusive dark matter. Led by Taiki ...

For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ytterbium to create a new type of atomic clock that is both highly precise and ...