Canada uranium deal, today's Knowledge Nugget revisits the basics — what uranium is, its key isotopes, how the enrichment process works, and why it is central to nuclear energy. Also, go 'Beyond the ...

ITER, a €20 billion nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France, will now not switch on until 2035 - a delay of 10 years. With smaller commercial fusion efforts on the rise, is it worth ...

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Tiny changes at the atomic scale can determine the future of clean energy. In a new study, Tohoku University researchers have revealed how the precise coordination environment surrounding a single ...

Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...

A first-of-its-kind Cambridge exhibition will let visitors wrestle with the extraordinary power of rare-earth magnets and discover the rocks from Greenland that contain rare-earth elements (REEs).

The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

A prestigious collaboration between the UK and Germany is set to revolutionise our understanding of the hidden world of atoms. Researchers from the ...

Have you ever felt like you’ve been stuck in the gap between ideas and reality? You sketch something exciting, imagine users paying for it, and then the project dies in a folder of unfinished files.