For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

The UKAEA has awarded contracts worth £8.1m to 14 organisations to develop shielding and fusion fuel technologies for future fusion power plants.

For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe expanding right ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are centralizing their nuclear materials research within ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

So long as it doesn't ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the United States won't be able to seek short-notice, on-site inspections to deter and detect possible Chinese and Russian ...

Neutron star mergers are among the most extreme events in the Universe. A recent simulation shows that the cataclysm begins well in advance. Indeed, a chaotic ballet of their magnetic fields ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 derived a new formula for gluon interactions, overturning assumptions of zero amplitude and advancing theoretical physics.

NASA is turning robotic landers into lunar scouts, probing heat, dust, and radiation to decode the Moon’s hidden risks before ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...