Target preparation techniques are fundamental to nuclear physics experiments as they provide the essential interface where high-energy reactions occur. Researchers employ a range of fabrication ...

A team of researchers in Austria has recently demonstrated that the world’s first nuclear clock could help answer whether the ...

In 2024, TU Wien presented the world's first nuclear clock. Now it has been demonstrated that the technology can also be used ...

The U.S. and China lead global efforts to make nuclear fusion commercially viable, with billion-dollar projects aiming for net-positive energy. Los Alamos scientists successfully recreated a 1938 ...

In fusion, hydrogen isotopes are heated to extremely high temperatures until they form plasma – superheated, electrically ...

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

The deviant behavior of a subatomic particle might point to undiscovered forms of matter and energy in the universe. Or it might not. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller reported on the last result from ...

Scientists have replicated a forgotten but crucial experiment that took place in 1938. The first-ever triton-deuterium (colloquially referred to as DT) fusion experiment that was accidentally ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur ...

Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...