U.S. federal government efforts to expedite nuclear permitting could help accelerate the industry but have sparked concerns ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

Global energy executives gathered in the Malaysian capital on Monday for an industry conference with an eye on the dramatic escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran, which has fuelled ...

Holtec predicts cost savings from building its first small modular reactors at the existing Palisades nuclear power plant ...

The chapters on the atomic theory derived by Epicurus from Democritus, taken up by Lucretius, and revised for our epoch by Gassendi, are strikingly able, thorough, and entertaining.

The Royal Society president and the discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson, called Einstein’s theory, in a quote that raced around the world, “one of the most momentous, if not the most ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is ...

The Bohr model provided a quantum explanation for atomic stability and radiation, something that classical physics had failed to explain. Before Bohr, atoms were seen as fragile and unstable ...

A shift towards a federated model of data management in 2025 will see the emergence of the ‘atomic lakehouse’ as the industry shifts further away from the centralised model; towards the notion ...

From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists of a tiny, dense nucleus, surrounded by electrons. This “Rutherford model” would form the ...