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A new slim volume examines the history of the science behind the atomic age. Craig Kenny looks at this tale of terror ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set a new world record for the most accurate aluminum ion-based ...

In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers report the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect, a key ...

Researchers in Japan observed the transverse Thomson effect for the very first time, a thermoelectric phenomenon that allows ...

Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, like almonds, according to a new study by Japanese scientists.

Scientists at UKAEA have have deployed two 3D printers to create fusion reactor parts that withstand extreme heat, force, and ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

Brookfield may take a 25% stake in a $54 bln new power plant, the FT says. Private investors could supercharge Britain’s ...

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

IT is fitting that the year in which the Bohr theory comes of age should hear a pronouncement by its author on the view of Nature to which it has led. It is true that in one sense the ...

IN the atomic theory put forward by John Dalton in 1801 the second postulate was: “Atoms of the same element are similar to one another and equal in weight.” For more than a century this was ...