Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

Scientists have developed a supercooled sensor that delivers full radioactivity profiles without chemical tracers.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

The country has domestic sources of uranium. Its largest mine is at Saghand, in east-central Iran. But mined uranium is mostly the wrong type for nuclear weapons: it is over 99% uranium-238 (U-238; ...

Joshua, age 7, Shoreview, Minnesota Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future ...

Tunnelling probability is dependent on the mass of the particle and the size of the energy barrier. So although fluorine is large, the barrier is small because ‘in a polyfluoride anion you have a lot ...

CERN is the world leader of the exploration of particle physics, thanks to its 27-kilometer atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Swiss-based research facility has officially completed ...

Please join the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 9:00 am ET, for the launch of its report, Project Atom 2024.