In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

Overloading Plasma Balls and Xenon Lamps” captures the shocking effects of pushing high-voltage devices beyond their limits, ...

Neutrinos are low-mass subatomic particles with zero electric charge that interact with matter only via the weak nuclear force and gravity. This makes neutrinos difficult to detect, despite the fact ...

Thirty-seven sub-assemblies, including 28 fuel sub-assemblies, are currently being loaded into India’s first 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam, the government said, marking a ...

According to the government, energy from the plant is expected to be cheaper than current alternatives and paves the way for ...

INL is producing enriched molten chloride fuel salt at full scale for its Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment, scheduled to ...

Scientists detect solar neutrinos transforming carbon into nitrogen for the first time, using the SNO+ detector deep ...

A review by the IAEA and partners has found that the United Republic of Tanzania has taken important steps to decentralize cancer services with a new centre bringing radiotherapy to the Kilimanjaro ...

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...