Deep in deserts, under frozen Alaskan soil, and across Pacific islands, a handful of nuclear tests went far beyond their ...

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy ...

In our world of AI-dominated algorithms, some nuclear physicists prefer to do science the old-fashioned way. And this newly developed physics-based, AI-free algorithm may be the breakthrough needed ...

BUILDING nuclear power plants presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities, the Department of Energy said on Sunday, quoting an official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — the ...

Cantz chose Mines for his undergraduate studies because it offered affordability, strong music opportunities and a direct ...

Rutherford's life and his work has been diligently chronicled in a new book by Kiwi author Matthew Wright called Ernest ...

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.