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

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

Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

As a finalist, Everett Van Til is eligible for scholarships from colleges, corporations and the National Merit Scholarship ...

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As the nuclear reactor “burns” U-235, the concentration of U-235 decreases while radioactive by-products such as fissile plutonium increase. Eventually, the nuclear chain reaction can no longer be ...