Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice with her groundbreaking research on radioactivity. Learn about her achievements, family ...
The Uncertainty Engine is guiding research in fusion plasma physics. Could similar approaches benefit fission research as well?
A new experiment using rare-isotope beams has provided new insight into the origin of proton-rich isotopes known as p-nuclei.
When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out ...
Oppenheimer, the man behind the atomic bomb, became the “destroyer of worlds,” yet found his deepest reflection in a ...
Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.
High-power microwave weapon expert was elected to the nation's top scientific body in 2009 A former top-ranking scientist in the Chinese military and one-time nuclear test site commander, Liu Guozhi, ...
Nuclear isomers are crucial probes for studying the structure of nuclei. Unlike chemical isomers—which have the same chemical formula but different arrangements of atoms—nuclear isomers are nuclei ...
Poland's National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) says hackers targeted its IT infrastructure, but the attack was detected ...
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” ...
In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...
Scientists have achieved a historic first using lasers to study electron behaviour, revealing new insights into how light ...