Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her route to becoming a nuclear safety engineer – a journey that includes job rejections, the charity sector and nuclear awards ...

My academic path studying physics at Tsinghua University began in 1981 where I completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s before earning a PhD in 1992. I then did a postdoc at the Central Iron & Steel ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has officially greenlit a critical safety blueprint for ...

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

Greece moved closer to the nuclear energy era as international organisations and experts highlighted the growing global return to nuclear power, alongside ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

WARSAW, March 12 (Reuters) - Poland has foiled a cyberattack on its nuclear research centre and is examining signs that Iran may be behind it, the government said on Thursday, cautioning the ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...

Poland has thwarted a cyberattack targeting its National Centre for Nuclear Research. Government officials are investigating ...