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Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

When the Nazis captured a heavy water facility in Norway, the chemist who helped design the plant took action. Leif Tronstad is ... a brilliant scientist with a brilliant mind, but all he wants to do ...

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The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico, in ...

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LiveChart is an interactive chart that presents the nuclear structure and decay properties of all known nuclides through a user-friendly graphical interface. Most of the accessible data are taken from ...

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Since 1987, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the Nuclear Notebook, an authoritative accounting of world nuclear arsenals compiled by top experts from the Federation of American ...

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