The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources convened March 19 for a full committee hearing to examine the Department ...

Negotiators had reached agreement on key issues despite the Trump team’s peculiar approach. Two days later, the war began. Among the many bizarre exchanges that occurred before the joint ...

A new experiment using rare-isotope beams has provided new insight into the origin of proton-rich isotopes known as p-nuclei.

Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard limits and special exceptions.

The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It is ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

My academic path studying physics at Tsinghua University began in 1981 where I completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s before earning a PhD in 1992. I then did a postdoc at the Central Iron & Steel ...

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

Spread the loveThe world of nuclear physics is constantly evolving, with new findings that challenge long-held beliefs about atomic structure and behavior. Recently, a collaborative effort from an ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...