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.

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

Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of the ...

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

Uranium is a story of duality. It is a mineral pulled from ancient rocks that can light up a city or wipe one off the map. It’s not just a relic of the Cold War or science fiction. It’s real, it’s ...

It was certainly an emotional moment for Haliburton, and he had an absolutely perfect reaction during his postgame interview. "Man, basketball is fun," Haliburton said. "Winning is fun." ...

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

Was all the nuclear material removed before the bombing? It’s hard to wade through the lies we’re being told about Iran. Much ...

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

The main risk inside the storage facility is the chemical toxicity of uranium hexafluoride gas and fluoride compounds ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...