A new detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has successfully observed neutrons in configurations and at angles where they had previously remained ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters examines how scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully created key nuclear reactions ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

A neutron star accreting material from a companion star, producing periodic X-ray bursts. Inset shows how the new data affect the temperature dependence of the synthesis flow of chemical elements ...

Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. Wolfgang Mittig receives funding from NSF. Meitner and ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch received puzzling scientific news in a ...

A new report has surfaced that has revealed that the infamous Chernobyl nuclear facility has seen a steady increase in neutron emissions, concerned scientists gravely. Back in 1986, the Chernobyl ...

The Phoenix neutron generator is installed at SHINE Medical Technologies' isotope production campus in Wisconsin. (Courtesy: Phoenix/SHINE) This breakthrough could prove great news for the field of ...