Nuclear fusion holds the promise of virtually limitless energy with a low-carbon impact, and new discoveries are helping to speed its development from theoretical to real-world applications.

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference.

Archaeologists in China have dated dinosaur eggs for the first time, revealing the age of the ancient fossils, according to a ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today opened the doors to its newly created Visitors Centre located in its laboratory facility in Seibersdorf, Austria, a first-of-its-kind space where ...

Copper selenide (Cu₂Se) attracts scientific interest for its thermoelectric ability to convert heat into electricity, but a ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on matter-antimatter imbalance.

A recent column on hydrogen water brought a well-deserved slap on the wrist from two experts. Rodney H. from Texas writes ...

A new approach for making the chemical ammonia using plasma — the fourth state of matter — could revolutionize how hydrogen is stored and transported and drive down the price of various manufacturing ...

Researchers used Argonne's Advanced Photon Source to capture how the microstructure of metals evolves in real time during 3D ...

An isotope hydrologist holds up a sample at a water laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya. Labs such as this one are now being invited to apply to join the IAEA’s Global Water Analysis Laboratory (GloWAL) ...

Researchers at Michigan State University have figured out how to use a fast laser to wiggle atoms in a way that temporarily ...