There are scientific explanations for this, including theories about layers of particles in the nucleus, and “magic numbers” of protons and neutrons that may be stable in combination. If we can find ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

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When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Piefer’s 50-year forecast seems a long way off, but progress shown by SHINE and NorthStar means the future is here in the sense that isotopes produced by both companies are already treating patients ...

Kearny-based Thea Energy partners with AWS to advance stellarator fusion technology, aiming to bring clean, commercial fusion ...

Who will be the first to feed fusion power into the grid? From Germany to China, the United States to France, more than 50 ...

Using a unique treasure of data, marine biologist Suzanne Poiesz investigated the fish food web in the Wadden Sea between ...

Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...

Pegmatite is a type of igneous rock characterized by its large crystal sizes, which can range from one centimeter to several ...