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

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

Hidden American research from the 1960s has found new life in China’s deserts, turning thorium into the fuel of the future.

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

AI’s growth has outpaced America’s power grid. Nuclear energy could be the key to powering the AI era—if policy, permitting, ...

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

Commonwealth Fusion Systems faces a litany of challenges, from complex physics and difficult engineering to building a supply ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

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 ...

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

Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...

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 ...