Scientists have discovered a mercury-free method to isolate lithium-6, a vital ingredient in nuclear fusion fuel. The ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

At CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, an international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has conducted especially precise measurements of atmospheric ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...

A groundbreaking study has successfully translated high-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based lipoprotein ...

France-headquartered nuclear start-up newcleo has acquired a French site in Chusclan (Gard) to build FASTER (Fuel process ...

Responding to increasing demand from countries for assistance, the IAEA has built, from scratch, an NDT Centre at its laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria, to provide hands-on training and support ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

The University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources (SER) has selected projects for funding after considering faculty-led proposals on nuclear-related research aimed at advancing Wyoming’s full ...

After more than a decade in the United States, nuclear physicist Liu Chang, whose research has been crucial in the journey to achieve fusion energy, has left Princeton University for a position at ...

Computational chemistry describes the use of computer modelling and simulation – including ab initio approaches based on quantum chemistry, and empirical approaches – to study the structures ...