For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

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Andhra University hosts national workshop on computer interfaced physics experiments with 140 participants, including faculty, scholars, and students.

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In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the horror" of growing up near a nuclear bomb ...

The administration of US president Donald Trump continues to introduce polices that strip the government’s support of US science, as Peter Gwynne reports Two months into Donald Trump’s second ...

Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

Everyone from the U.S. energy secretary to Big Tech touts small modular nuclear reactors as a potential answer to booming ...