Rebecca Toomey, a postdoctoral research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been recognized with ...

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

Our account of the strong nuclear force is full of imaginative terms. Six flavors of quarks have color charges of red, green and blue, which dictate how they bind to form particles like protons and ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are formed when a star runs out of fuel and collapses under its own gravity, ...

During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge. Reading time 4 minutes The National Security Archive has published recently declassified ...