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

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 ...

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.

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how these elements bond with other atoms (known as ...

AMES, Iowa – A tiny, solid sample of a drug, complete with active and inactive ingredients, spun at 50,000 revolutions per ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with international partners, have uncovered surprising behavior in a specially engineered crystal. Composed of tantalum ...

A new federally funded study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania offers an unprecedented ...

Recounting their relationship is a slippery slope for the two characters in Anna Jordan’s engrossing play about love and loss. Figuratively and literally so: actors Hannah Sinclair Robinson and Joe ...