A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

Scientists have replicated a forgotten but crucial experiment that took place in 1938. The first-ever triton-deuterium ...

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

Israel's military says it killed nine of Iran's top nuclear scientists Friday as part of its strikes aimed at crippling the country's nuclear capabilities. The Israeli military said the scientists ...

Israel kills nuclear scientists, strikes sites in Iran: Who did it target? Israel says attacks on nuclear sites, personnel aim to ‘roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival’.

Oceans have absorbed enough heat since the Paris Agreement was signed to match the energy of 1.7 billion atomic bomb explosions, scientists warned just as the UN Ocean Conference got underway in Nice.

The Big Bang theory is wrong and the universe is sitting inside a black hole, scientists have suggested. Since the 1930s – when Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemaitre proposed the ...

(Here we speak not as scientists but simply as two long-time observers of the American political scene.) Some who oppose the president’s policies and actions say the best option , lacking the votes in ...

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In 2015, The Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced intrastate conflict resulting in 384 deaths, it had an ecological footprint of 0.8 global hectares per capita (0.9 hectares below the ...

Scientists Have a New Theory. Posted: June 2, 2025 | Last updated: June 7, 2025. Humans haven’t been to the Moon in nearly 50 years and that’s part of the reason why we still don’t know what ...