New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts contains a ratio of sulfur ...
Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.
Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution.
and lead-208 (82 protons and 126 neutrons), the heaviest stable element known. To understand these bizarre observations, physicists proposed the "nuclear shell model," which draws parallels with the ...
Driven by tech dollars and demand, nuclear fusion might soon be available to power artificial intelligence. To get a sense of ...
The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...
MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...
Kyoto Fusioneering is developing two next-generation breeder-blanket structural materials. One is a family of vanadium alloys that handle temperatures of around 800 °C. The other is a composite of ...
Kearny-based Thea Energy partners with AWS to advance stellarator fusion technology, aiming to bring clean, commercial fusion ...
Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...