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 ...

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 nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

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 ...

In 1938, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann made a groundbreaking discovery. Their experiments with uranium ...

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