China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously ...

One of the least-discussed but most consequential outcomes of the resurgence of major-power rivalries is the return of nuclear weapons to the center of international politics. The global salience of ...

The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term ...

By several metrics, that dream is getting closer to reality: The costs of solar and batteries have plummeted, and California ...

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems.

The Nevada desert once scarred by mushroom clouds now shelters a surprisingly rich web of life, with scientists documenting ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2025 — AIP and the National Society of Black Physicists congratulate Stacyann Nelson as the winner of the 2025 Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence. Christian Aganze is also ...

Alcorn State University's health physics program received a $50,000 boost from Entergy recently to advance learning opportunities for future nuclear power plant workers. Representatives of Entergy. .

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a user facility for nuclear physics research operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science at DOE’s Brookhaven National ...

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...