In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Google is making a big bet on a power source that hasn’t yet been used successfully anywhere in the world: nuclear fusion.

Alphabet's Google said on Monday it has struck a deal to buy power from a project in Virginia fueled by fusion, the reaction ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

A new seaborgium isotope may unlock the path to discovering even shorter-lived superheavy nuclei through K-isomer states. An ...

The Wisconsin state Senate passed a slew of bills during session after hours of debate, including bill that would increase ...

A quick nuclear reactors 101: Fission is when uranium atoms are forced into an excited state in which they emit neutrons, striking other uranium atoms and causing them to do the same.

The amount of energy produced from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear fission reactions — and fusion reactions can be the basis of future fusion power reactors. Plans call for ...

Advantages. The nuclear fission reaction does not release the greenhouse gas close greenhouse gas The gases responsible for global warming - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and CFCs ...

Technically, all atomic bombs are nuclear bombs, as they use fission — a nuclear reaction — as their power source (as opposed to traditional bombs, like TNT and dynamite, which use chemical, ...