New research from scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, describes a recent discovery revealing where the energy lost during singlet fission goes. The results, published in the journal Cell ...

Fission Fragment rockets are several proposed nuclear rocket designs made since the 1980s with the highest potential theoretical top speed. The fission-fragment rocket is a rocket engine design that ...

An international team of scientists have observed how a mysterious quantum phenomenon in organic molecules takes place in real time, which could aid in the development of highly efficient solar cells.

The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant four years ago has drawn attention to the environmental impact that the release of fission products from nuclear fuels can have in the event ...

When a heavy nucleus divides into two fragments in nuclear fission, two key questions about the process have challenged researchers since the discovery of fission more than 60 years ago. First, what ...

On March 20, the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) presented a 2023 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award plaque to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in ...

Collaborators: Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in 1912, a few years into their 30-year working relationship. This summer, the theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer captured widespread public fascination ...

The MIGRATION conferences focus on recent developments in the fundamental chemistry of actinides, fission and activation products in natural aquifer systems, their interactions and migration in the ...

Panel A shows how mitochondria join through the process of fusion, which is mediated by the coordinated activities of mitofusins in the outer mitochondrial membrane and OPA1 in the inner mitochondrial ...