Researchers say they are alarmed by reports that the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest U.S. funder of the ...

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Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy ...

Nuclear physics is a research area focused on the structure, dynamics, and interactions of atomic nuclei and their constituent nucleons, governed primarily by the strong and weak nuclear forces within ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Iran expert Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group about Iran's nuclear capabilities before and after U.S. and Israeli attacks.

From an image of a detector hunting for signs of dark matter to a picture of a deep-sea neutrino telescope studying ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions ...

Renowned techno artist Carl Craig is working with scientists to make nuclear concepts accessible art in a new installation.

Nuclear Museum appoints world-renowned nuclear physicist and educator to Board of Trustees. I am excited to use my ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...

The nuclear physics research group at the University of Surrey is seeking an outstanding doctoral student candidate to join its internationally renowned program of nuclear reaction studies. This ...