Scientists just brought us one step closer to the dream of unlimited power. On November 17 at the Nevada National Security Site, a nuclear energy startup called Valar Atomics achieved zero-power ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how rockets fly, how spacecraft sip propellant and how engineers think about the ...

Whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two depends on three fundamental questions: Are the new ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure ...

Once a testing ground for Soviet weapons, the country is using a unique facility to find materials that withstand plasma that ...

Human crews headed for Mars are still looking at journeys that last most of a year, long enough for radiation, boredom and mechanical risk to pile up. Nuclear propulsion promises to compress that ...

Caleigh Samuels is using modern computational methods to increase the accuracy of data provided to nuclear safety decision-makers. Credit: Alonda ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of ...

Boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones – this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...