Known as “islands of inversion,” these odd regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air. Lost Science Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

VIENNA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran's stock of uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, increased slightly before Israel attacked its nuclear facilities on June 13, a confidential ...

Rebun Kayo, a Hiroshima University researcher, searches for remains of victims of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing in Ninoshima in western Japan on July 8. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP) NINOSHIMA, Japan — When the ...

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is proud to welcome Jill Hruby to its Science and Security Board (SASB)—a distinguished group of experts who provide guidance on nuclear risk, climate change, and ...

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Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, a confidential report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Saturday, and called on Tehran to urgently ...