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Understanding Nuclear Stability: Magic Numbers in Physics Shutterstock/ktsdesign A pivotal set of numbers has served as the foundation of nuclear physics research for decades, revealing how…
NASA’s Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor Plans for the Moon NASA has revealed its groundbreaking plans to construct a nuclear reactor on the Moon. This ambitious project represents…
Russia Displays Military Might at Moscow Parade Image Credit: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images As of February 2026, the world faces a historic moment: for the first time…
Russia Demonstrates Military Might at Parade Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images By February 2026, the absence of any active treaty limiting the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and…
Valar Atomics’ Ward 250 Reactor Under Construction Daria Nagovitz/Valar Atomics Despite contributing nearly one-fifth of the U.S. power generation, nuclear energy in the country has seen…
President Donald Trump made this announcement prior to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images US President Donald Trump has…
Microsoft has revealed that investigations are underway indicating that Chinese “threat actors,” including state-sponsored hackers, are taking advantage of security flaws in SharePoint’s document sharing servers,…
Modern atomic energy technologies primarily utilize nuclear fission. In this process, the nuclei of heavy atoms, such as uranium, are bombarded with neutrons, causing them to…
Iran’s Arak Heavy Water Nuclear Facility was damaged by Israeli bombing ShutterStockEdit Israel’s assault regarding Iran’s nuclear activities has raised concerns about potential radioactive incidents, according…
On Friday, President Donald Trump enacted four executive orders designed to ease and broaden regulations surrounding nuclear production. The orders focus on overhauling the Department of…
Tianwan Nuclear Power Station on the Yellow Sea coast of China Xinhua Newsletter/Alamie Researchers in China have created a cost-effective and energy-efficient method for extracting uranium…
Brandon Williams, who was chosen by President Trump to oversee the country’s nuclear weapons, stated on Tuesday that he does not recommend resuming explosive testing of…
Humans have been striving to measure the world we live in for a long time. Our measurement systems and units help us comprehend ourselves and our…
Nuclear reactions can be categorized as either fission (when an atomic nucleus splits into two lighter nuclei) or fusion (when two atomic nuclei combine to form…
El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryGarry McLeod/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The top spot in the league table of the world's most powerful computers has…
Physicists are GSI/FAIR accelerator facility gained insight into the structure of the atomic nucleus. Fermium is a synthetic chemical element of the actinide series with atomic…
Amazon.com has recently signed three agreements to collaborate on the development of small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power technology. This cutting-edge technology aims to address the…
circleWhen Atomfall was first revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, many people asked, “Is this the British Fallout?” “In some ways it is, and…
IIt was a project that promised the Sun: researchers would use some of the most cutting-edge technology in the world to design machines capable of generating…
Tokamak’s 30-metre deep assembly pit ©Enrico Sacchetti Huge in scale and ambition, ITER is a €20 billion energy project being built in the south of France…
Physicists are Potassium Decay (KDK) Collaboration. They directly observed for the first time a very rare but important decay pathway from potassium-40 to argon-40. Their results…
When it comes to apocalypse scenarios, nuclear destruction stands out as both fascinating to viewers and alarmingly realistic. From the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to…
Tantalum-180m (180mTa) is a rare isotope of tantalum whose decay has never been observed, and whose lifetime is expected to be about a million times longer…
Ruins of the observation tower of Opitnoe pole Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Finalist, Professional Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024 These photos, all shortlisted for the…
Mysterious new weapon could threaten satellites in Earth orbitKey Fame/Shutterstock According to a series of reports, the US government has privately warned lawmakers and European allies…
Despite its recent emergence, these technologies and concepts are not new. The United States and the Soviet Union developed and tested anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) during the…
Nuclear fusion experiments at the US National Ignition Facility reach a significant milestonephilip saltonstall Scientists confirmed that a 2022 fusion reaction reached a historic milestone by…
In wargame simulations, AI chatbots often choose violence Gilon Hao/Getty Images In multiple replays of the wargame simulation, OpenAI's most powerful artificial intelligence chooses to launch…