​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

A newly discovered aluminium isotope rapidly self-destructs by ejecting three protons in a rare sequence — shaking up our ...

The U.S. Department of Energy-funded site sits on 5,265 acres in Suffolk County and is so vast it has its own ZIP code — ...

Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

Fusion’s demand for tritium is tiny in volume terms, but tritium is the key ingredient to turn fusion reactor designs into ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics.

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As plans for missions to Mars accelerate , so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more ...

Knowable Magazine reports on attosecond science, revealing how scientists study atomic interactions at unbelievable speeds to ...

Scientists can make gold by doing some experiments in the lab. Then when gold can be made in the lab, why is gold being ...