In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a ...

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

“We are interested in finding alternative scintillator and solar cell materials that are more radiation-hard,” he tells Physics World. The researchers are optimistic, though, arguing that optimized ...

It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected ... and the conversation was not erudite. Nuclear physicist Emil Konopinski brought up a cartoon he had recently seen ...

This includes technological advances such as the development of electronics, photonics and device physics, or improving practical investigations, such as experimental nuclear physics and ...

A UKRI funded studentship in the theoretical nuclear physics group at the University of Surrey to work on theories at the forefront of nuclear physics, in areas such as nuclear reactions, structure, ...

As part of this, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was tasked in 2023 at a cost of US$92 million with building a new nuclear gravity bomb called the B61-13.

attacks. And yet here is Gabbard, throwing a lifeline to Khamenei’s nuclear weapons program and doing so in the most public of ways. This is a classic case of ignoring the sum of the parts that ...

Nuclear explosive tests, because they were expensive, laborious one-offs, were designed to succeed. Stockpile stewardship has allowed scientists to learn the ins and outs of the physics behind the ...

Now, researchers are considering radiocarbon as a source for safe, small and affordable nuclear batteries that could last decades or longer without charging. Sometimes cell phones die sooner than ...

Now, researchers are considering radiocarbon as a source for safe, small and affordable nuclear batteries that could last decades or longer without charging. Su-Il In, a professor at Daegu Gyeongbuk ...

Basically, anywhere you desperately want to avoid frequent battery replacement. Nuclear batteries will become even more relevant as the world continues to decarbonize while also becoming ...