An aircraft designed to detect nuclear activity was observed traversing several American states, prompting widespread concern ...

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China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Standard Nuclear, Inc has received its first shipment of high-assay low-enriched uranium feedstock at its facility in Oak ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

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A new form of nuclear power plant is in the works. Called TRISO, it is meant to be smaller, mass-produced and far less costly ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...