Francis Halzen, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, found a new way to study neutrinos — by turning a block of ...

A study of six Chernobyl particles found their nuclear fuel structures largely intact after 40 years, shedding light on ...

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

Scientists studying the tracks of particles streaming from six billion collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—an "atom smasher" that recreates the conditions of the ...

Muons are one of the key subatomic particles for discovering new physics, but tracking them after particle collisions can be difficult and prone to error. A new study ...

ALBANY, New York, April 12, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most exciting cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, expected to generate fresh insights into the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be ...

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New research reveals unexpected connections between the forces inside atomic nuclei and the expansion of the universe. Scientists have found that the same mathematical framework can describe particle ...

Eighty-nine scouts earned their Nuclear Science Merit Badge during an educational event at Patrick Space Force Base.

Mixed in with the ordinary sand on the beaches of Hiroshima Bay are tiny glass beads, easy to overlook unless you know what to look for. Some are round. Others have fused together or carry thin tails, ...

Atomic batteries powered by radioisotopes were one of the first dreams of the Atomic Age, but the dream has taken a long time to turn into reality. Most atomic batteries have produced too little ...