Heavy water is not just heavier. Swapping each H in H2O with a D — hydrogen’s isotope deuterium — changes many of water’s properties. Heavy water is poisonous, and its freezing point is 4° Celsius, ...

I doubt that you'll be able to take pictures of hydrogen molecules with your digital camera anytime soon, but German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have done it. They've ...

Selective process Deuterium molecules (shown in grey) can change the structures of the DUT-8 pores and pass through the material. The orange molecules of normal hydrogen cannot pass through. (Courtesy ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have visualised vibration and rotation in the nuclei of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum mechanical wave packet. What is more, ...

Nuclear physicists at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US have obtained the first results from a new spectrometer that contains the magnet from a mothballed MRI machine. They used the Helical ...

Controlled hydrogen fusion−the key to cheap, abundant energy−is still miles away but it is getting closer. After a two-day conference at Princeton, N.J. last week, U.S. and British atomic officials ...

To most of the U.S. public the hydrogen bomb was still a direful novelty last week, but to scientists there was little new about it. Long before the discovery of uranium fission they had known that ...

If new computer simulations pan out in the real world, nuclear fusion, the power source that makes stars like our sun shine, may be a practical possibility here on Earth, scientists say. Simulations ...

You’re probably familiar with lasers and you might even have a laser pointer lying around at home which fits nicely in your hands. But now, imagine a laser that is the size of three (American) ...