The U.S. Space Force has provided funding of $35 million to create a new spacecraft that can “maneuver without regret.” ...
Nuclear experts see Tehran as facing up to a year of hard work to master the knotty basics of building a deliverable atom bomb. By William J. Broad The first question of the vice-presidential ...
Nuclear fission involves harvesting the incredible amount of energy released when an atom is split by a neutron. This ...
That is probably unsurprising given that the technology to split to the atom was developed during ... established around each ...
The current gold standard for ultra-precise timekeeping is the cesium atomic clock, where the tiny and fixed energy transitions of the atom’s electrons are used to keep track of time.
Microsoft made waves last week when it announced a deal with Constellation Energy to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island to meet its surging data center power needs, bucking the power ...
Programmable quantum computers have the potential to efficiently simulate increasingly complex molecular structures, ...
Nuclear chemistry is concerned with the properties of and changes to atomic nuclei, as opposed to traditional chemistry, which involves properties and changes related to the electronic structure ...
But recreating nuclear fusion on Earth presents an array of technical challenges. It involves merging atoms in a process that generates temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius, and building ...
Radioactive waste from World War II-era atomic weapons development continues to roll by the truckloads into a Wayne County hazardous waste landfill. The shipments arrive even as a Wayne County ...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group comprising survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nihon Hidankyo was given the award “for ...
Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...