Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

The U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Field Office and the Washington Department of Ecology will host a virtual public meeting about the proposed Contact-Handled Waste Processing Treatment ...

When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...

F4, the latest cesium fountain clock that now stands as one of the most accurate timekeepers in the entire world.

Los Angeles-based start-up General Matter in a post on X claims that it will revive nuclear fuel production in ...

The State of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a targeted waiver of the 1995 Settlement Agreement, ...

TAE Technologies claims its setup produces 100 times the power of other designs at half the cost, but the road to commercial ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday.

What happened?On 28 April 2025 at 17:43, a massive blackout swept across Spain and Portugal after two sudden losses of solar generation pushed the Iberian grid below safe frequency limits. Power was ...

SARAH KREPS is John L. Wetherill Professor and Director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University and a Nonresident ...

A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel ...