What do you get when you put a nuclear physicist, an optical physicist and a crystal-growing maestro together in a laboratory? This is not the beginning of a bad joke, but the starting point for ...

A Russian physicist has proposed moving the Doomsday Clock away from midnight, citing the global community's forceful reaction in opposition to Russian nuclear threats following its February 2022 ...

Dr. Maidana will spearhead design of space nuclear systems that encompass nuclear propulsion and power generation technologies optimized for space applications New York, N.Y., Oct. 01, 2024 (GLOBE ...

Radioactive nuclear fallout can contaminate the food chain poisoning any produce it touches and the animals that eat it.cyano66 / Getty Images Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — ...

Russian nuclear physicist Grigory Klinishov, co-creator of the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, has been found dead in his apartment in Moscow, local media reported on Wednesday.

Wolfgang Panofsky '38, who left a legacy of influential research in electron accelerator design, high-energy particle physics and nuclear arms control, died of a heart attack Sept. 24 in Mountain View ...

Helen Jackson, a nuclear physicist with decades of experience and a patent under her belt, was excited about a new job at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, a ...

As a founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists, he defended Soviet dissidents and advocated higher standards in government research. By Sam Roberts Kurt Gottfried, a theoretical physicist who ...

Researchers may have just spotted the elusive, ephemeral nucleus of nitrogen-9 for the first time. With seven protons and two neutrons, the lopsided atomic nucleus of nitrogen-9 pushes the limits of ...

WGLT’s Twelve Thousand Bombs podcast features conversations with leading scholars and policy advocates on the real and hypothetical impacts of nuclear war. Presented in partnership with Illinois State ...