Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

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

The intense electric fields generated by peeling tape can produce ‘microlightning’ that can ionise reactants and drive ...

With their innovative design, tokamak reactors are leading the charge in fusion research, aiming to unlock the potential of ...

These images show the merger of two neutron stars simulated with a new supercomputer model. Red colors indicate lower-density regions. The green and white ribbons and lines represent magnetic fields.

Radioactive sources contain radioactive material of a particular radionuclide (an unstable form of an element emitting radiation), which can vary based on the application for which the source was ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration have discovered nearly 300 gamma ray pulsars, advancing pulsar research and contributing to gravitational wave ...

The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has discovered around 300 rapidly spinning neutron stars. Each of the newfound objects sweep two beams of radiation across the universe like a cosmic lighthouse.

This visualization shows 294 gamma-ray pulsars, first plotted on an image of the entire starry sky as seen from Earth and then transitioning to a view from above our galaxy. The symbols show different ...

Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy.

The neutron-rich oxygen isotopes oxygen-27 and oxygen-28 exist as very short-lived resonances, report scientists from Tokyo Tech based on the first observation of their decay into oxygen-24 and three ...