Elusive ‘nuclear clocks’ tick closer to reality — after decades in the making
Researchers are attempting to build the world’s first nuclear clock. This is a view inside the vacuum chamber…
Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside…
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei, China.Credit: Zhang Yazi/China News Service/VCG via…
chemist who expanded the periodic table
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Darleane Hoffman was a trailblazing nuclear chemist whose work helped to extend the…
Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear Fusion
A team of researchers at MIT think they may have lowered one of the major barriers to achieving…
SpaceX and satellites help states save millions on internet buildout | Guest Commentary | Commentary
The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program was meant to bring affordable, reliable internet to…
Record-Breaking “Watermelon” Nucleus Could Rewrite Atomic Science
The study is part of Henna Kokkonen’s doctoral thesis. Credit: Tommi Sassi After more than 30 years, physicists…
Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering
Data taking Data from the CONUS+ run 1 analysis presented in this study correspond to the period from…