Spread the loveThe world of nuclear physics is constantly evolving, with new findings that challenge long-held beliefs about atomic structure and behavior. Recently, a collaborative effort from an ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...

Modern viewers tend to associate superweapons with Star Wars, but Star Trek has quite a few that make George Lucas’ look tame. There’s a simple reason for this; as (ostensibly) peaceful as the ...

Some researchers are seeking out the ancient history of these patterns in a substance that may be unexpected to some: plant wax. The study, coauthored by Daniel Ibarra, an assistant professor of Earth ...

Geological features like these provide evidence that Mars once had a denser atmosphere and significant surface water — ...

Clinton was at the center of an Obama-era deal that constrained Iran's uranium enrichment when the U.N. was calling for its ...

Zircon crystals have provided scientists with an invaluable tool for dating the Earth, revealing its true age to be around 4.54 billion years old.

“These offsets largely disappear,” Yue Li said, summarizing the team's reanalysis and its implications for isotope tracing.

Learn more about what Bronze Age burial sites reveal about how these ancient societies navigated everyday life.

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.