For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

Nuclear energy had a huge moment in 2025. Novel reactor designs and excitement around new enrichment capacity have helped nuclear energy undergo a resurgence this year. That resurgence helped spark a ...

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

In our world of AI-dominated algorithms, some nuclear physicists prefer to do science the old-fashioned way. And this newly developed physics-based, AI-free algorithm may be the breakthrough needed ...

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

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties ...

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], ...

DARPA is exploring Ghost Imaging to revolutionize nuclear detection, using quantum physics to see hidden threats with ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

In 1958, Ford unveiled one of the most ambitious and bizarre concept cars ever imagined — the Ford Nucleon, a vehicle powered not by gasoline, but by a miniature nuclear reactor in its trunk. Designed ...

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.